Jennifer Dworkin's prize-winning documentary is an honest and touching portrayal of three generations of a family that, to be sadly blunt, live in a place two steps beyond redemption.

A surreal, depressing look into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, told from a militant, overly intellectualized Palestinian perspective using wildly sardonic humor, brutally honest irony within a disjointed plot that at times is somewhat maddening but always surprising.

It is rare that two novels come out about the same place and time, this being Spanish Harlem. It is also next to impossible that two authors can create two books evoking the same angels and demons while creating two distinctly different main characters.