{"product_id":"my-hijacking-a-personal-history-of-forgetting-and-remembering-isbn-9780062699794","title":"My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn September 6, 1970, twelve-year-old Martha Hodes and her thirteen-year-old sister were flying unaccompanied back to New York City from Israel when their plane was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and forced to land in the Jordan desert. Too young to understand the sheer gravity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Martha coped by suppressing her fear and anxiety. Nearly a half-century later, her memories of those six days and nights as a hostage are hazy and scattered. Was it the passage of so much time, or that her family couldn’t endure the full story, or had trauma made her repress such an intense life-and-death experience? A professional historian, Martha wanted to find out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on deep archival research, childhood memories, and conversations with relatives, friends, and fellow hostages, Martha Hodes sets out to re-create what happened to her, and what it was like for those at home desperately hoping for her return. Thrown together inside a stifling jetliner, the hostages forged friendships, provoked conflicts, and dreamed up distractions. Learning about the lives and causes of their captors—some of them kind, some frightening—the sisters pondered a deadly divide that continues today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thrilling tale of fear, denial, and empathy, My Hijacking sheds light on the hostage crisis that shocked the world, as the author comes to a deeper understanding of both what happened in the Jordan desert in 1970 and her own fractured family and childhood sorrows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does a historian piece together a past her own mind has tried to erase?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Fragility of Memory:\u003c\/b\u003e Fifty years later, the author confronts the gaps in her own recollection, questioning whether time, family silence, or trauma itself is the reason her memory of six days as a hostage is so scattered.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA World-Shaking Historical Event:\u003c\/b\u003e An intimate, child’s-eye view of the 1970 hostage crisis in the Jordan desert, as an unaccompanied twelve-year-old tries to make sense of her Palestinian captors and the deadly geopolitical conflict surrounding her.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDeep Archival Research:\u003c\/b\u003e The professional historian meticulously pieces together the past using her own childhood diary, declassified documents, and recent interviews with fellow hostages to uncover the full story.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Fractured Family History:\u003c\/b\u003e Beyond the hijacking, this is a poignant exploration of a childhood split between two continents and the unspoken sorrows that shaped a family long before the crisis began.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Beautiful and terrible, Hodes’s marvelously written story of the assassination fills the mind, heart and soul. People never forgot the event; this book is a page-turner that makes it all unforgettable again as it also explains how one shocking death illuminated so many others.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid W. Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory on Mourning Lincoln\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Revolutionary, revelatory, and deeply moving, \u003cem\u003eMy Hijacking\u003c\/em\u003e starts where other memoirs stop--at the absolute limits of memory. A terrific work of suspense and a magnificent achievement that sets a new benchmark for the genre.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNell Zink, author of Avalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In reclaiming her personal history, Ms. Hodes has provided a lesson for us all in the power of memory both to conceal and heal.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Extraordinary. . . . Hodes calls the book a ‘personal history’ rather than a memoir, and that is apt. If memoir brings the devices of fiction to the task of autobiography, then Hodes has brought the instruments and procedures of historical biography to her own personal narrative.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In the richly emotional and elegantly constructed \u003cem\u003eMy Hijacking\u003c\/em\u003e, Hodes puts her historian’s training to use. . . . With novel-like pacing and incredible psychological complexity, \u003cem\u003eMy Hijacking\u003c\/em\u003e is an unflinching search for all the bad feelings we’d prefer not to look at.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An extraordinary task . . . . Hodes calls the book a 'personal history' rather than a memoir, and that is apt. If memoir brings the devices of fiction to the task of autobiography, then Hodes has brought the instruments and procedures of historical biography to her own personal narrative. [Hodes] demonstrates a keen and subtle eye.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMy Hijacking \u003c\/em\u003eis a tremendous account of an event now widely forgotten, and would be valuable enough for that. It is even more a fascinating meditation on what and why people remember – and what and why they forget.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Humanist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Martha Hodes is one of the best writers in the profession of American historians. In this book she transcends the art of history as she also practices it, crafting a memoir of gripping power and courage about her \"voyage into forgetting and remembering\". Hodes delivers something sacred - a heroic search to \"unbury\" a terrible piece of her own past in records, but especially in her disconnected memory. She creates her own genre - a devotional narrative about the mystery of memory and truth, accomplished with humility and intrepid determination. [An] unforgettable book.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid W. Blight, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Everything about this story is a surprise and it is told by one of the most fascinating, imaginative scholars now at work in American history.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDarryl Pinckney, author of Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this singular and riveting book, Martha Hodes uses her considerable skills as a prize-winning historian to reconstruct her own experiences as a young girl aboard a hijacked plane in the Jordan desert in 1970. Taking multiple paths into the question of why she remembered so little of what she lived and felt during that traumatic event, Hodes has given us a moving and unforgettable meditation not just on history and memory, but also on family and the silences they guard.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAda Ferrer, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cuba: An American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"My Hijacking \u003c\/em\u003eis a historian’s riveting account of having been, as a child, made an unwilling participant in a historic event. A skillful combination of memoir and history, Hodes’s talents as a historian and writer are on full display in this beautifully written and deeply affecting work.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnnette Gordon-Reed, New York Times bestselling author of On Juneteenth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Intriguing. . . . What gives her book its propulsive force [is] her effort not only to piece together the details of the hijacking and its aftermath, but to make sense of the omissions in her own memory. . . . Hodes examines the episode with a historian’s meticulousness and a reporter’s zeal.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A poignant and perceptive study of what it takes to heal.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890420805861,"sku":"NP9780062699794","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062699794.jpg?v=1730233247","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/my-hijacking-a-personal-history-of-forgetting-and-remembering-isbn-9780062699794","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}