This paper examines trans-generational exile, a term which suggests that the effects of being forced to leave home can be transmitted to younger generations. In “Reflections on Exile,” Edward Said regards exile as a wound constantly nursed and a predicament that cannot be escaped. It is a contagious disease, he argues, that inflicts the exiles and their children. The paper explores how exile cannot be overridden in The Inheritance of Exile, a collection of short story, written by the Arab female writer Susan Muaddi Darraj. Her collection shows how younger generations of Palestinian immigrants still suffer from the negative outcomes of their parents’ exile. For example, The Inheritance of Exile depicts how four Palestinian American women (Nadia, Aliyah, Hanan and Reema), whose parents are originally from Palestine, cannot assert their American identity despite the fact that they were born in U.S.A. Although these central characters strive to escape the aftereffects of their parents’ displacement by changing their neighbors, moving to different cities in U.S.A., their parents’ histories force these young women to be called “ethnic.”