Fast Times in Palestine Author Comes to Rochester

FAST TIMES IN PALESTINE

A Book Talk with Pamela J. Olson

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2013 at 7:00 pm

ZUMBRO LUTHERAN CHURCH – FIRESIDE ROOM

624 3rd Ave. SW

ROCHESTER, MN

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

 Pamela Olson will discuss her book Fast Times in Palestine, a memoir set in the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  The book is an account of Olson’s experience stumbling into the West Bank on a post-college backpacking trip, becoming a journalist, and serving as the foreign press coordinator for a Palestinian presidential candidate.

Little by little, the book reveals the realities of life under occupation –social, political, geographical, and psychological—in a narrative full of beauty, suspense, cruelty, star-crossed love, and dark humor.

I have read much of the writing of this conflict, and no other book has conveyed such an authentic, penetrating, and enchanting sense of the Palestinian people and their long struggle for rights and security. — Richard Falk, UN special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories

Brimming with tension and tragedy, but also with the humor, warmth, everyday foibles, and irrepressible hopes of a people determined to live free. —Tony Karon, Time

Sponsored by SouthEast Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers (SEMNAP) and Minnesota Break the Bonds Campaign (MN BBC)

Questions?  Darlene Coffman at 507-250-0902.

Pamela Olson’s website: http://pamolson.org

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