We follow the Abulhejo family as they live through a half century of violent history. Forcibly removed from the olive-farming village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejos are displaced to live in canvas tents in the Jenin refugee camp. The novel was partially inspired by the Ghassan Kanafani novel Returning to Haifa. Mornings in Jenin is the first mainstream novel in English to explore life in post-1948 Palestine. Bloomsbury Publishing reissued the novel in the United States as Mornings in Jenin (February, 2010) after slight editing. The novel begins in the picturesque village of Ein Hod in the north of Palestine. From these beginnings, which promise a Middle Eastern Catherine Cookson story, a fine novel emerges. Mornings in Jenin, by Susan Abulhawa, is the story of one Palestinian family over four generations. It can be argued, however, that it is also a story about any and every Palestinian family. Mornings in Jenin is a multi-generational story about a Palestinian family. Mornings In Jenin follows the tale of a Palestinian family known as the Abulheja whose lives are turned upside down when they are forced to leave their ancient village of Ein Hod to a refugee camp in Jenin.