The Lemon Tree
The Lemon Tree — just published this month — grew out of an award-winning documentary on NPR’s Fresh Air. With the book, Tolan pursues the story into the homes and histories of the two families at its center and up to the present day, offering a personal microcosm of the last 70 years of Israeli-Palestinian history. In a region that seems ever more divided, The Lemon Tree is a reminder of all that is at stake — and all that is still possible.
Sandy Tolan, the author of Me & Hank and former Gloucester resident, has written for the New York Times Magazine and more than 40 other magazines and newspapers and has produced dozens of radio documentaries for NPR and PRI. A 1993 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, he now directs the Project on International Reporting at the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.