'You cannot go back and make a new start, but you can start now and make a new ending.'-- The Almond Tree Michelle Cohen Corasanti places one family at the centre of the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians to depict how it feels to be a Palestinian and have one's land taken away and belongings destroyed under a strict military rule. The Almond Tree is a story written in the first person narrative where the protagonist Ahmed Hamid's life and psyche is being constantly shaped by the events that happen around him. It is right at the beginning of the novel that Corasanti without mincing words shows us the brutal reality that Ahmed's family is threatened by landmines planted by the Israelis....