Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestinian Odyssey Through Apartheid by Nathan Thrall

19 reviews

orangegirl22's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

a true story that reads like a novel, does a good job of showcasing the lives of palestinians and the challenges they face while also providing historical context and looking at larger structural forces of oppression 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Car accident

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Racism, Islamophobia, Medical content, and Medical trauma

sarahjsnider's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Car accident

Moderate: Physical abuse and Rape

hammerhead69's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Xenophobia, Blood, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

katekatiekait's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

Moderate: Car accident and War

Minor: Rape and Self harm

bibliomich's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

I've been sitting on my review of this one for over a month, because I simply don't know if I have the words to do it justice.

The quote that comes to mind is from Yiyun Li's When Reasons End:
"Would you call it a tragedy? he said.
I would only say it's sad. It's so sad I have no other adjectives left."

So sad, I have no other adjectives left. Yet don't let this keep you from reading A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. There is a reason the book won a Pulitzer for General Nonfiction. The title is slightly misleading; expanded from a previous article written by Thrall, the book is not just about a single day. Instead, it investigates the Israeli–Palestinian conflict over generations, and the way many, many political choices over time that ultimately shaped a tragedy on this one day.

Nathan Thrall writes with journalistic integrity. The writing is (in my opinion) objective, well researched, and thoughtfully written. I learned so much about the history of the region, the peoples, and the conflict.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and War

kateharsh's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

Heartbreaking and informative

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

paperknotbooks's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

Read for BookTube Prize. To be rated at a later date.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

niamh_p_delaney's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and War

e_f_p21's review

informative sad fast-paced

2.75

Badly written, especially in the first half.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Car accident

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Colonisation

Minor: Police brutality and Antisemitism

sarah_see_be's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, and Car accident