| Contents |
Three weddings -- Two fires -- Mass casualty incident -- The wall -- Three funerals. |
| Abstract |
Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for the school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer in a horrific accident. 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: a kindergarten teacher and a mechanic who rescue children from the burning bus; an Israeli army commander and a Palestinian official who confront the aftermath at the scene of the crash; a settler paramedic; ultra-Orthodox emergency service workers; and two mothers who each hope to claim one severely injured boy. Immersive and gripping, this is an indelibly human portrait of the Jewish-Palestinian struggle that offers a new understanding of the tragic history and reality of one of the most contested places on earth. -- Adapted from publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [220]-242) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Thrall, Nathan. Day in the life of Abed Salama. First edition New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2023 9781250854988 |
| LCCN | 2023017070 |
| ISBN | 9781250854971 |
| ISBN | 1250854970 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Stock number | Henry Holt & Co, C/O Mps 175 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, USA, 10010 SAN 631-5011 |
