Enter Ghost

LILY MEYER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"Enter Ghost, though contemporary, is thoroughly infused with Palestine's past — and thoroughly haunted by Sonia's. Hammad, who is both a delicate writer and an exact one, intertwines the two, taking care to give Sonia as many personal ghosts as she does historical ones ... In Enter Ghost, concealment and subterfuge end poorly, as the title — and Hamlet — would suggest. Indeed, the novel seems to argue, real growth and connection, both political and personal, cannot begin until everyone's ghosts have emerged from hiding. Art is, if nothing else, a powerful tool for coaxing them out."