Trauma as an Adversarial Strategy in Abulhawa’s the Blue Between Sky and Water This paper explores the aesthetics of trauma in the Palestinian American Susan Abulhawa’s novel The Blue Between Sky and Water. Abulhawa fictionalizes the durability of trauma, haunting Palestinian refugees in Gaza Strip as a ghost, reminding them of their cataclysmic past. The novel relates the saga of forced evacuation of the Baraka family, who is originally from Beit Daras, a small farming village located 32 kilometers in the northeastern side of Gaza. The advent of the Nakba or the 1948 Palestinian Catastrophe renders this family homeless, shifting locations before they end up in a refugee camp in Gaza or as exiles in the United States. Abulhawa’s novel shows that while Palestinians are inflicted with indelible memories of expulsion and flight, these memories serve as resistant strategies against erasure and forgetfulness. Therefore, though classical trauma theory, spearheaded by Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, Dori Laub and Geoffrey Hartman, centers on the amnesic aspect of trauma on individuals, this paper argues that the Palestinian trauma often is not amnesic and goes beyond the individual’s psychodynamics of trauma. It is collective and functions as a reminder of what the Palestinians have been through. Collective remembering hence lies at the core of the Palestinian struggle for the right of existence, resistance and return. Finally, reading Palestinian predicament of flight and displacement through the lens of classical trauma theory extends the analysis of trauma to cases in the global South and renders the theory cross-cultural and inclusive of postcolonial traumas. Keywords: collective trauma, classical trauma theory, immigrant narrative, Palestinian collective remembering