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'Even if we could go back Iraq it would be as Jewish ghosts.'

The black pages are so hard to view... Trigger warnings for this book so far are: educational telling of racism, bombs, torture, death, war scenes, and heartbreak.

'His daughter, my great-aunt, was kidnapped from there by Arab sheikhs. She was just a child. To this day the family doesn't know what happened to her.'

This is a ghost story ... A silent book that says everything. Gobsmacked.

'A sinn el-dheeb [amulet made from a wolf's tooth] was pinned to babies' cribs as protection against the evil eye.' - Claire Isaacs, née Hay.