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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall
2 reviews
meldasilas's review
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
A heartbreaking picture of living as a Palestinian in the West Bank, this book takes you on a winding journey through a man's life full of sadness, regret, and ambiguity told through the narrative of bus crash that involves a kindergarten class.
As a mom of a kindergartener, this is the most heartbreaking book I read all year, particularly because it goes through the frustratingly difficult history between Palestine and Israel and demonstrates how every small daily element of life a free person takes for granted is not offered in the West Bank.
As a mom of a kindergartener, this is the most heartbreaking book I read all year, particularly because it goes through the frustratingly difficult history between Palestine and Israel and demonstrates how every small daily element of life a free person takes for granted is not offered in the West Bank.
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Dementia, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Cancer, Hate crime, Blood, Child death, Domestic abuse, Car accident, Drug use, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Medical content, Police brutality, Violence, and War
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
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