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Gather the Olives

Bret Lott

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.

“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