Crossing
75 years of occupation, 11 chickens, 5 cancers, 1 language mistake … 35 years together. Can (interracial) love conquer all?
Crossing is a memoir-family saga which retraces the love story between Sabrin’s Palestinian father and Italian mother, and the life of her half-Italian, half-Palestinian family from the 1960s to 2020. After the loss of her mother, Sabrin tries to renegotiate her mixed identity and understand her mother’s choices from an oppressive childhood in a village in Tuscany to love and community activism in Palestine.
This is a story about grief and what it means to lose not only loved ones, but also a place in the world and a sense of belonging.
Crossing (previously Wait for Her) has recently been awarded the Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize and will be published in 2025.
Vivid, compassionate, captivating, Sabrin’s writing is both deeply rooted in place and culture, and transcending borders in its universality and humanity.
Sabrin’s writing is captivating, drawing us warmly into a world that is both different and familiar, that we want to know about. A special and original voice, one for our times.
Sabrin’s story is a moving and tender story about love and identity, and a meditation on the people who make us who we are. It was a joy to read.
Sabrin tells the story of her father, family and Palestine in a searingly honest and tender manner that is threaded with gentle and poignant humour.