Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

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

13 reviews

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

niamh_p_delaney's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Domestic abuse, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Violence, War, Racial slurs, Death, Colonisation, and Car accident

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

sarah_see_be's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Xenophobia, and Violence

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

jesserenn's review

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

isalime's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

A bus full of kindergarteners is hit by a semi-truck near Jerusalem. The bus flips and catches fire. It took hours for emergency services to arrive. 

 

The crash serves as a type of epicenter for the book. The book is broken up into 5 sections with different POV and life stories of Palestinians and Israelies who were at the scene of the accident. Through their life stories, you learn about the Israel-Palestine conflict. 

 

“Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy” is a fitting subtitle as by the end you understand why the children were on the bus, why the semi-truck crashed into bus, why the emergency services took hours to arrive, why the accident was inevitable, and why different itirations of this tragedy will continue to happen throughout the region. 

 

I had little to no knowledge about the conflict and day to day life of Palestinians. I felt the book did its best to give me a concise history lesson and social context of the Israel-Palestine conflict. That being said, there were a couple of things I didn’t like. There are a lot of characters and even with the character list at the start of the book, it was hard for me to keep track of who everyone was. While the crash is the epicenter of the book, it takes a backseat as you learn about the life stories of the characters. I wasn’t always interested in the life stories and was dying to get back to the crash and the aftermath. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Death, Car accident, Colonisation, and Grief

Moderate: Violence, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

amyjo25's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Car accident

Moderate: Islamophobia

pcjacks's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Car accident