From Wisconsin to Gaza to Jenin: An American Writer’s Lived Experience in Palestine [Book Review]

Sam Bahour
4 min readJun 24, 2023
Crossing Borders: The Search for Dignity in Palestine
By Christa Bruhn
Little Creek Press (May 20, 2023), 506 pages, $28.95

Christa Bruhn’s newly published memoir is not the first to revolve around Palestine. However, it is uniquely placed among the few books which were written by writers who, themselves, experienced Palestine.

If you walk away from reading this book feeling that you have just read a memoir of an American…

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