Bibliograph

A day in the life of Abed Salama, anatomy of a Jerusalem tragedy, Nathan Thrall

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A day in the life of Abed Salama, anatomy of a Jerusalem tragedy, Nathan Thrall

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-242) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A day in the life of Abed Salama

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1380652287

Responsibility statement

Nathan Thrall

Sub title

anatomy of a Jerusalem tragedy

Summary

"Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day. Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos--the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad's fate. It is every parent's worst nightmare, but for Abed it is compounded by the maze of physical, emotional, and bureaucratic obstacles he must navigate because he is Palestinian. He is on the wrong side of the separation wall, holds the wrong ID to pass the military checkpoints, and has the wrong papers to enter the city of Jerusalem. Abed's quest to find Milad is interwoven with the stories of a cast of Jewish and Palestinian characters whose lives and histories unexpectedly converge"--, Brooklyn Public Library

Table Of Contents

Three weddings -- Two fires -- Mass casualty incident -- The wall -- Three funerals

Target audience

adult

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