The concept of “home” in Palestinian literature is replete with cultural and national significance. For refugees, memories of home and physical keepsakes serve as a means of maintaining links to a distant Palestine, while for those who remained in Palestine, the home becomes a site of Israeli invasion and siege, a metaphor for the nation under occupation. In both instances it functions as a site for the literary expression of a commitment to the political struggle for Palestine, as seen in works by Ghassan Kanafani and Sahar Khalifeh, among others. Only in recent years has a younger generation of writers begun to challenge this understanding of “home” in Palestinian literature and culture. In this presentation I stage a reading of the one such work, Kulluna Ba’id bi-Dhat al-Miqdar ‘an al-Hubb [We Are All Equally Far from Love, 2004] by Palestinian author Adania Shibli. This novel, a fragmented narrative composed of loosely connected vignettes, portrays the home as an alienating, unwelcoming space, which complicates the metaphor of home as a site of national redemption and commitment to the nation. In this presentation I argue that Shibli’s novel, by rejecting the redemptive potential of “home” as a site of refuge and dissent, destabilizes the notion of home as nation by situating it not as a space for steadfastness and resistance, but as the nexus of a larger societal decay and stasis. I draw on works on space and boundaries by Inge Boer and place and violence by John Tyner to show that the home functions in this novel as a site of violence, entrapment, and physical and mental break down. Through this portrayal of home, Shibli’s novel rejects the redemptive potential of commitment and resistance through the metaphor of home as nation in favor of a desire to escape, the only possibility of which appears in the form of a series of love letters written by an unknown woman. In a context in which the physical home is an extension of the oppressive decay of a society under the weight of Israeli rule, the letters function as an imagined space of refuge and escape. The displacement of home as a refuge and site of national redemption by these letters suggests that the commitment of the text to “home” in service of a political cause gives way to a commitment to the text as a home and a site of redemption.