“This story begins as it ends, with me…waiting for what all of us spend our whole lives waiting for: to not be alone anymore.”
—Rubén Degollado
Gather the Olives is a dangerous book. That’s because it is about peace in a time when peace in the Holy Land is a faraway, even radical notion. It is about hope and food and community and the way there can be solidarity in sharing a meal. Hence the danger: this book might remind its brave readers of how peace is nourished and how hope can’t be extinguished.
