Displaced Persons: Stories -- Joan Leegant, Paperback Graphic Novels and prophetic insight into American

and prophetic insight into American culture and politics

or a phantom conjured from imagination

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from fifteen years of experience praying

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Displaced Persons: Stories -- Joan Leegant, Paperback Graphic Novels and prophetic insight into AmericanSet half in Israel and half in the United States, the stories in this prize winning collection explore the experience of exile, belonging, and what it means to call a place home. A visiting professor from Boston forms an unlikely bond with an Israeli born in Iraq. Two teenage tourists are startled out of their naivet in a restaurant in Jerusalem's Old City. A gifted yeshiva student spiraling into mental illness takes refuge in the poetry of Walt