Reviews tagging 'Child death'

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

21 reviews

meant2breading's review

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Wow. Absolutely infuriating to learn that the Israeli emergency services (who were only minutes away) allowed a bus full of Palestinian kindergarteners to burn for an hour at an accident scene without intervening. 😭😭 Thank you to the intrepid bystanders and staff who went back and risked themselves to try and save those poor little babies. 💔 It was also very heavy to read through the perspective of the children’s parents, frantically trying to find or get to the right hospitals their children were taken to and how the IOF only permitted this based on what kind of ID they had at military checkpoints. Based on how Palestinians have been treated by settler colonial Israel historically (especially a long before the 2012 accident) and currently, I’m deeply angered but not surprised by the joy some Israelis took in the death of these children and Palestinian people. I can see why this book won a Pulitzer recently. While the primary focus of the story was on the collision and impacted families, I really felt Thrall’s dedication to provide the education and research on the broader consequences of apartheid and military occupation. Free Palestine now! 🇵🇸

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Child death

alexcribbs's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

Lost count of how many times I cried reading this. A nonfiction that reads like fiction. Devastating loss surrounded by devastating circumstances.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Racism and Xenophobia

isleofwoman's review

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, War, Police brutality, Racism, Death, Child death, Violence, and Domestic abuse

zed_dog's review

emotional informative sad

5.0

With the pacing of a masterfully-crafted novel, the wider context of a history book, and the dedication to truth of a piece of investigative journalism, this is a powerful work of nonfiction that brings into focus the terrible  human consequences of apartheid and military occupation in Palestine. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

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

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

e_f_p21's review against another edition

informative sad fast-paced

2.75

Badly written, especially in the first half.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Child death

Moderate: Colonisation and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Police brutality and Antisemitism

queenoftheharpies's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Completely devastating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Genocide, War, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Racism, Islamophobia, Physical abuse, Violence, Police brutality, Child death, and Medical trauma

bee324's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Child death, Racism, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Misogyny

Minor: Rape and Sexual violence

capnhist's review

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

A heartbreaking work about a bus accident in occupied Palestine in which 6 kindergarteners died, caused and exacerbated by the unconscionable oppression of the West Bank by the state of Israel. I wish the book had been a bit longer and had taken the time to really drive home the state of life and the daily humiliations under Israeli military occupation, but this remains a book about the families and their ordeal. The tighter focus doesn't detract from the overall message.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death