Hussein Barghouthi, a Palestinian author, was diagnosed with lymphoma when he was in his late forties. When the cancer diagnosis was made, he felt a bittersweet relief that his wife and son would be saved because he had feared it was HIV. This response embodies the bittersweetness of the shifting narrative and reflective moods that set Among the Almond Trees apart as a contemplative memoir. Returning to childhood memories of his birth village in central Palestine, where the house he grew up in is surrounded by almond and fig orchards, is how Barghouthi copes with finality. He frequently takes therapeutic strolls in the moonlit tree shadows, where he sees interested foxes, dancing gazelles, and a badger with a sickle. The author decides to build a house where he would live with his wife and son, in whom he sees a renewal of life. The realization of his impending death also urges him to vocalize this experience, and he relates the progress of the disease at infrequent intervals. And, ultimately, he details the imaginative possibility of a return to life?to the earth, where he would be buried among the almond trees. ?