The Roots of the Guava Tree

“Sonia Daccarett’s beautiful, heartbreaking coming-of-age memoir is a powerful addition to contemporary Jewish literature. In telling her story of a Palestinian and Jewish family courageously attempting to live outside of history, she has deepened our understanding of the complexity of Jewish and Arab identity in our time.”—Yossi Klein Halevi, senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
“As the child of nonconformists, Daccarett was always going to be facing life as an outsider, and in this exquisite memoir she presents a vivid portrait of both these diaspora communities as well as a country on the verge of cataclysmic change… . sharply observed, often moving, and always incisive recollections.”—BookLife Reviews

“Her fledgling independence is detailed with poignant humor and melancholy … the engrossing memoir The Roots of the Guava Tree is about cultural and family intricacies in a vibrant, troubled setting.”—Foreword Clarion Reviews, 5-star review
“In The Roots of the Guava Tree, we are carried with the current of a girl’s coming of age amidst cultural reflections about a memorable family of secular, humanist parents in denial of the histories they inhabit. Full of wisdom and compassion. Irresistible.”—Marlena Maduro Baraf, author of At the Narrow Waist of the World

Sonia Daccarett is a writer and communications professional. Born in Colombia to a Christian Palestinian father and a Jewish mother, she moved to the United States and received an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a master’s degree in international and public affairs from Columbia University. For more than two decades, she worked on strategic communications initiatives with corporate and non-profit clients and currently writes and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.

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