Love and Desire in the Promised Land: The Private Lives of Israelis and Palestinians

Available from Fantagraphics when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict viewed through the lens of romantic relationships. A humanizing journalistic portrait of the intimate lives of ordinary people in Israel and Gaza. Love and Desire in the Promised Land collects a dozen interviews with real-life citizens of Israel and Gaza navigating messy boundaries in their homes and bedrooms against a background of geopolitical violence. Collecting interviews conducted before the October 7 attack unleashed a new wave of bloody conflict, the book