title: Tasting the sky: A Palestinian childhood author: Ibtisam Barakat date: 2007; Ferrar, Straus and Giroux non-fiction; biography I didn’t plan to read two war stories back to back, but they made for quite a sobering weekend. Tasting the sky is Barakat’s recollection of the wars of her childhood, of her family being displaced to… Read More book review: Tasting the sky