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Gershom GorenbergIn the traveler's tale, a subgenre of memoir, the voyager mentions briefly why she left for distant, dangerous lands, then recites stories that she heard there and carried home. Such is Jennifer Miller's highly readable Inheriting the Holy Land, in which she tells of growing up in America as the daughter of State Department diplomat Aaron D. Miller…and of joining Seeds of Peace, an admirable coexistence group that runs a summer camp in Maine where Israeli and Palestinian teens learn to listen to each other…the young Seeds are the heroes of this powerful book precisely because Miller is wise enough to retell their stories without making them fit together. Their personal versions of the narrative have fissures. They are patriots with doubts—and with friends on the other side.
—The Washington Post