This is part of the continuing series of random book reviews that'll be nothing like a New York Times book review. Gone is the ten thousand word analysis. Instead, here is a book review like you'd tell your friends.
The book: Sandy Tolan's The Lemon Tree.
Review:
Well, that sure as hell isn't how the news media portrays the Middle East. Sensible people? Authentic lives and backgrounds? But the media tells me everyone in the Middle East is either riding in military tanks or wearing bandannas and throwing Molotov cocktails. Is The Lemon Tree suggesting that very complex situations can't be explained by broad-brush stereotypes? That people might act like people?
But--but--but--you mean I have to actually put things in perspective?
