Nakba

Lloyd P. Johnson, MD, authored three novels, Living Stones, Cry of Hope and Uprooting the Olive Tree and one non-fiction book, Where's Frank, Koehler Books, 2013-16. The current effort, Nakba, historical fiction, continues his interest in the quest for a just peace in the Middle East, the product of living there on several occasions. His experience also spans periods of work overseas as surgeon and administrator, volunteering for periods of time in Kyrgyzstan of Central Asia, Ethiopia, Kenya, India and Pakistan, providing an international perspective. Johnson's surgical career includes that of flight surgeon, USAF, 28 years of surgical practice in Seattle, Clinical Professor University of Washington, fellow American College of Surgeons and past president Seattle Surgical Society. He authored 26 scientific articles. Johnson lives with his wife Marianne in Edmonds, Washington, enjoying their adult children and many grandkids.

When Palestinian Christian college student Sabria lives through the little known 1948 catastrophe of her people, she learns the cost of being Arab in the tumultuous time of Israel's birth pangs. Despite enjoying both Jewish and Muslim friends, she falls in love with an American Christian supporter of Israel. Can their love for the suffering families of the land begin to bridge their own gap in the tragedy that became the foundation for the unresolved conflict of the next 69 years? Nakba fires the imagination of readers who care about justice and resolution in a romantic tale of adventure and hope.