A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker,The EconomistTimeThe New Republicand the Financial Times. Immersive and grippingan intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of liveslovesenmitiesand histories over the course of one revealingheartbreaking day. Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the wayhis bus collides with a semitrailer. His fatherAbedgets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaosΓÇöthe children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missingothers cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn MiladΓÇÖs fate. It is every parentΓÇÖs worst nightmarebut for Abed it is compounded by the maze of physicalemotionaland bureaucratic obstacles he must navigate because he is Palestinian. He is on the wrong side of the separation wallholds the wrong ID to pass the military checkpointsand has the wrong papers to enter the city of Jerusalem. AbedΓÇÖs quest to find Milad is interwoven with the stories of a cast of Jewish and Palestinian characters whose lives and histories unexpectedly converge. In A Day in the Life of Abed SalamaNathan ThrallΓÇöhailed for his ΓÇ£severe allergy to conventional wisdomΓÇ¥ (Time)ΓÇöoffers an indelibly human portrait of the struggle over Israel/Palestine and a new understanding of the tragic history and reality of one of the most contested places on earth.