A deeply immersive portrait of daily life in Israel and the West Bank arranged around the story of a Palestinian child and a school trip that ends in tragedy following a traffic accident. Weaving together the ordinary and interwoven lives of Jewish and Palestinian inhabitants, Thrall, a Jerusalem-based author and journalist, illuminates the complex realities of one of the worlds most contested regions -- The Best Books to Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict * Financial Times * Nathan Thrall's book made me walk a lot. I found myself pacing around between chapters, paragraphs and sometimes even sentences just in order to be able to absorb the brutality, the pathos, the steely tenderness, and the sheer spectacle of the cunning and complex ways in which a state can hammer down a people and yet earn the applause and adulation of the civilized world for its actions -- Arundhati Roy The book combines heart-wrenching prose with rare political insight. It tells a deeply moving story about one tragic road accident, which illuminates the tragedy of the millions of Palestinians who live under Israeli Occupation -- Yuval Noah Harari Thrall is one of the few writers who can combine vivid storytelling with in-depth analysis of the occupation... his expertise allows him to shuttle nimbly between the viewpoints of frantic families and Palestinian leaders as well as Israeli officials and nearby settlers -- Rozina Ali * New York Times * Clear-eyed... A long and powerful book of reportage Unflinching clarity. At a time when facts have become weapons in this seemingly endless conflict, this is a book that speaks with truth of ordinary lives trapped in the jaws of history * Observer * Magnificent The book does what all good stories should do it unfolds both minutely and epically at the same time. It does not moralise, and yet it does not shirk its responsibility to knock our sense of comfortable balance all to hell. The nature of injustice is such that we may not always see it in our own times, but history will hold us accountable. Thats why Thralls book, and those like it, are so important * The Irish Times * Thrall captures both the universality and the specificity of the experiences of Palestinians living under Israeli Occupation... the book builds a relentless case that this crash and the ensuing trauma must be remembered. It was all so predictable - and could easily happen again * Economist * An important book one that closely examines the intricacies of injustice perpetrated on the Palestinian population by the Israeli government, its systems and plenty of its Jewish citizens -- Ilana Masad * Washington Post * Reading this Middle East experts account of a Palestinian worker and activist and the death of his angelic 5-year-old son, Malid, is tough and necessary. The bus accident that took the boys life in 2012 was caused in no small part by the neglected infrastructure that makes Palestinian Jerusalem a miserable, dangerous place to live. By narrowing the focus to one familys loss, Thrall humanizes the consequences of systemic decay -- Bethanne Patrick * LA Times * A powerful evocation of a two-tiered society that treats children as potential combatants * New Yorker, Best Books Out Now *
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