The Audacious Book Club: Lessons for Survival by Emily Raboteau

The April 2024 selection

In “Mother of All Good Things,” one of the essays in Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse, Emily Raboteau writes about visiting the Palestinian shantytown of Khirbet Susiya in the West Bank in June 2016. Raboteau and her guide Ahmad are greeted by a resident, a middle-aged woman who, like the other Palestinian residents of Susiya, is …