India, March 22 -- As a half-Palestinian-half-Jewish American, Hannah Lillith Assadi grew up amid intense love and a persistent sense of loss. Her parents' love for each other and for their family seemed to suture a gaping historical wound. But she was the daughter of a man who was evicted from his home, with his family, at five years old. He had told her stories of how he wandered the world, for decades, looking for and never really finding another place to belong. So she knew his struggle. What she didn't realise was the sense of failure he carried. When she asked him on his deathbed how he felt about his life, he said it was "wasted". He had never made it home, as his father and mother had dreamed he would; the war had raged on, and the ...