Track changes

In Keeping Track of Changes, Sayed Kashua writes about Palestinians and Israelis and what they want to remember and what they want to forget. It is about homesickness, uprooting and the processing of memories. About being Palestinian in Israel and about father-son relationships.
Writer S., who had left Jerusalem years ago with his wife and children to emigrate to the United States, receives news that his father is in the hospital. They have not spoken to each other for fourteen years. S. gets on a plane to support his father and to come to terms with himself - with his traumatic past in the Palestinian town of Tira, where he grew up.
Why hasn't he seen his father or other family members since his wedding day? Why does he have a difficult relationship with his wife?
Tracking Changes by Sayed Kashua is ambitious, intriguing, and above all a real eye-opener.