"The Hollow Half": Palestinian American Sarah Aziza on Gaza, Generational Trauma, Anorexia & Exile

The award-winning Palestinian American journalist and author Sarah Aziza has released a new book, The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders, in which she examines her recovery from an eating disorder from which she nearly died in 2019, linking it to the generational trauma experienced as part of her Palestinian family's history of exile. Aziza was born in the U.S. as a daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees. I began to recover memories of my Palestinian grandmother that led to a curiosity ... about my family's history in Gaza, in Palestine, the greater Nakba," says Aziza. And as a daughter of the diaspora, I hadn't tied my own story so viscerally to the story of my people."