Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

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

6 reviews

readingwithcoffee's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Cried on and off, pls take the trigger warnings seriously it’s a nonfiction book about a his full go kindergartners catching fire and ten of them dying. 

Well written and well excited to branch out from the tragedy to talk about now the apartheid contributed to the mass death event 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Medical content, Murder, Colonisation, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Racism, Mental illness, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Rape

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

jesserenn's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A must read though a hard one 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Colonisation, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, War, Car accident, Islamophobia, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault

carriepond's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.25

In A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, journalist Nathan Thrall takes one tragedy-- a deadly bus crash just outside Jerusalem involving Palestinian children-- and uses it as a jumping-off point to examine the history of the West Bank and the present-day reality of Israeli occupation in the area. The result is a nuanced portrait of a cast of characters that lays bare the systemic failures (some by accident, most by design) that exacerbated the tragic outcome of the accident. 

It is not easy to use one day to examine decades of history, but Thrall did so very successfully here. This is a propulsive and maddening work of narrative non-fiction, and I thought Thrall did a good job of weaving in the personal and larger histories at play in a way that didn't detract from the parts focused on the bus crash. In addition to feeling completely caught up in the story, I learned a lot from this book. I also listened to Traci Thomas's interview of Thrall on her Podcast The Stacks and it was excellent-- recommend listening to that in conjunction with reading this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

meldasilas's review against another edition

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.

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Content Warnings

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 against another edition

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. 

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Content Warnings

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