A debut con­tem­po­rary mem­oir about a young woman strug­gling to under­stand her iden­ti­ty as the daugh­ter of a Jew­ish moth­er and a Chris­t­ian Pales­tin­ian father, com­ing of age in Colom­bia as increas­ing vio­lence and the insta­bil­i­ty of the 1980s engulf her country.