Drawn from her experiences of growing up as a young woman in the “world’s largest prison”—Gaza—Nayrouz Qarmout’s stories stitch together a stirring patchwork of perspectives exploring what it means to be a Palestinian today.

Whether following the daily struggles of orphaned children fighting to survive in the rubble of recent bombardments, or mapping the complex tensions between political forces vying to control Palestinian lives, these stories offer a rare insight into one of the most talked about but least understood cities in the Middle East.

Taken together, they afford us a local perspective on a global story, always rooted firmly in that most cherished of things, the home.