A review by greyemk
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall

fast-paced

4.25

Read this basically in one sitting. It’s a thoroughly researched nonfiction about a horrific bus crash in Palestine [depends who you ask] and the people who were affected - mostly the families of children in the crash but others play a significant role too. Thrall uses the accident as a lens to explore various historical and political aspects of the Israeli regime that impacted the event and its outcome - the unsafe road, unregulated school, poor emergency response. It was both very readable and fast-paced while having some really good new-to-me content about the methods Israel uses to control the movements of Palestinians, especially the city planning.