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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall
2 reviews
throwback682's review
emotional
informative
medium-paced
5.0
This book covers a lot of people and their stories. It can be hard to keep track and follow who is who. But it’s very worth it. As many have said, this true story reads like a novel. And, it illustrates so powerfully life for Palestinians under Israeli occupation. The very real deaths of human children in this story paint a picture like a metaphor all the ways that settler colonialism harms people. You can easily understand how everything could’ve been different for these families without borders and walls and checkpoints and various classes of IDs and different emergency services. This book taught me a lot without being dry.
Graphic: Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Grief, Confinement, Death, Car accident, War, Genocide, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Child death, Islamophobia, and Fire/Fire injury
pageturner2017's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Child death, War, and Violence
Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
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