Tragic Whispers Audiobook | Chapter 5: El-Bireh, Ramallah — Rebellion, Hashish in Jerusalem & Childhood Trauma
Rebellion was no longer just a feeling. Deana Elaine was beginning to act on it.
In Chapter 5, “El-Bireh, Ramallah,” from Tragic Whispers: Secrets From the Heart of a Broken Palestinian American Woman, Deana shares a turbulent period of her youth in Palestine—getting expelled from school, smoking marijuana, pushing against authority, and even going to Jerusalem in search of hashish.
Alongside her friends Dora and Fatima, Deana begins testing boundaries and taking risks. But behind that rebellion was a young girl already carrying years of childhood trauma and struggling to find freedom in a…
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