
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
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Peter Ganim
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Nathan Thrall
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WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times.
Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day.
Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer. 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.
In A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, Nathan Thrall—hailed for his “severe allergy to conventional wisdom” (Time)—offers 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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Metropolitan Books.
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- Narrated by: Dion Graham, Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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The events of that day are now tragically familiar: on May 25, 2020, George Floyd became the latest Black person to die at the hands of the police, murdered outside of a Minneapolis convenience store by White officer Derek Chauvin. The video recording of his death set off the largest protest movement in the history of the United States, awakening millions to the pervasiveness of racial injustice.
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So Much More than “ I Can’t Breathe”
- By B Farnum on 09-13-22
By: Robert Samuels, and others
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We Were Once a Family
- A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
- By: Roxanna Asgarian
- Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the Pacific Coast Highway. Investigators soon concluded that the crash was a murder-suicide, but there was more to the story: Jennifer and Sarah Hart, it turned out, were a white married couple who had adopted the six Black children from two different Texas families in 2006 and 2008. Behind the family's loving facade, however, was a pattern of abuse and neglect that went ignored.
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Biased
- By Amazon Customer on 10-05-23
By: Roxanna Asgarian
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The Undying
- Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
- By: Anne Boyer
- Narrated by: Amy Finegan
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
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A week after her 41st birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, pro-pain "dolorists", and the many little murders of capitalism.
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Provocative and moving
- By C. FREEMAN on 05-13-20
By: Anne Boyer
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Master Slave Husband Wife
- An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
- By: Ilyon Woo
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Leon Nixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North.
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Necessary story well told!
- By Marc W Rhoades on 01-19-23
By: Ilyon Woo
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Liliana's Invincible Summer
- A Sister's Search for Justice
- By: Cristina Rivera Garza
- Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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October 18, 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, unresolved criminal file. “My name is Cristina Rivera Garza,” she writes in her request to the attorney general, “and I am writing to you as a relative of Liliana Rivera Garza, who was murdered on July 16, 1990.” It’s been twenty-nine years. Twenty-nine years, three months, and two days since Liliana was murdered by an abusive ex-boyfriend.
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liliannas love, and the injustice/mysogeny in the Mexican culture
- By sldpac on 04-18-25
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- By: Siddharth Kara
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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Cobalt Red is the searing first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt.
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A must read
- By Anonymous User on 02-01-23
By: Siddharth Kara
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Soldiers and Kings
- Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
- By: Jason De León
- Narrated by: Jason De León
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet the real lives and work of smugglers—or coyotes, or guides, as they are often known by the migrants who hire their services—are only ever reported on from a distance, using tired tropes and stereotypes, often depicted as boogie men and violent warlords.
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Honest and enlightening
- By Amazon Customer on 04-17-24
By: Jason De León
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Fire Weather
- A True Story from a Hotter World
- By: John Vaillant
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada’s oil industry and America’s biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration—the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina—John Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event, but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter, more flammable world.
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Fire and Brimstone
- By Barbara J Williams on 01-06-24
By: John Vaillant
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Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
- A Reckoning
- By: Peter Beinart
- Narrated by: Peter Beinart
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
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In Peter Beinart’s view, one story dominates Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance of Jewish religious tradition and warps our understanding of Israel and Palestine. After Gaza, where Jewish texts, history, and language have been deployed to justify mass slaughter and starvation, Beinart argues, Jews must tell a new story. After this war, whose horror will echo for generations, they must do nothing less than offer a new answer to the question: What does it mean to be a Jew?
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Profound
- By Michael Halpern on 02-09-25
By: Peter Beinart
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The Message
- By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s classic “Politics and the English Language,” but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories—our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking—expose and distort our realities. In the first of the book’s three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind.
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Bias
- By Dana on 10-13-24
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
- An American History
- By: Ada Ferrer
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Ada Ferrer - prologue
- Length: 23 hrs and 13 mins
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In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued—through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country’s future. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of the modern nation.
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US Bash Job
- By Derek & Amber Witt on 04-14-22
By: Ada Ferrer
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Doppelganger
- A Trip into the Mirror World
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Naomi Klein
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
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What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who.
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Elite Psychobabble
- By A Reviewer on 09-30-23
By: Naomi Klein
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Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- By: Hernan Diaz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.
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Before Purchasing
- By JLDLOfficial on 08-13-22
By: Hernan Diaz
What listeners say about A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
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- kree
- 12-14-23
Sad but fascinating story. Very well written and performed.
nothing it was a great retelling of true events. Very tragic story for all the families involved.
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- Phillip
- 07-11-24
Great but
The book is incredible, but on audiobook, it’s very difficult to follow all of the Arabic names. I found myself rewinding a lot to understand everything.
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- Global Doc_Amazon
- 11-19-23
One story of an accident that encapsulates so much of the trauma of daily life due to the Palestinian Israeli conflict
Amazingly written. Well researched. One of the best readings and pronunciations non-English names and places. Excellent.
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- JerseyGuy
- 01-09-24
Our Ignorance Revealed At Last!
Western media tell us virtually nothing about Palestinian lives. Awareness comes first - only then can we restore justice for Palestinians. Thank you Nathan Thrall for writing a terrific book that should be read by everyone on our planet!!!
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-09-23
Heart and gut wrenching!
It shatters my heart to read the immense human suffering in the present climate. I have no words to describe the pain I am feeling as this tragedy is multiplied by thousands.
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- AMINA
- 06-02-24
The inhumane treatment of Palestinians
Nothing.Its very well written and read! I highly recommend it. Will listen to it again
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- Frequent shopper!
- 08-12-24
A tough read, a revealing book
This was a very tough book to read. It provided me with insights into the Palestinian crisis, and left me with a greater appreciation of the challenges on the Mideast today.
It reminded me of Patrick Radden Keefe’s book, Say Nothing. I found many parallels with the Troubles in Ireland. Both books explore what it is like to live in high conflict areas such as Ireland and the Mideast, where issues of identity, personhood and one’s humanity are challenged on a daily basis.
Compromise and lasting solutions after so many years of conflict is hard to come by.
Time doesn’t make it easier.
That said, I didn’t give it five stars. Two reasons, from Nathan Thrall’s point of view, not one Israeli ever did anything of value or admirable. That seems too black and white and simplistic for a sophisticated book
Secondly, in listening to an audio book where most of the names are not familiar to western ears, , it was sometimes hard to follow the story. A PDR glossary attached to the audio book would have been a big help. Some of the names sound very similar, making it hard to follow the story at different time.
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- Allan J. Thomas
- 08-23-24
Heartbreaking
The saddest part of this for me (outside of the loss of so many children) was the response of Israeli youngsters to this tragedy. When asked about their online posts, they showed no remorse. It says a lot.
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- Jim-the-reviewer
- 11-03-23
Touching and revealing
Amazing blend of intimate personal detail in a context of a complex political and cultural conflict in Israel/Palestine.
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- edward t.
- 10-25-23
Eyeopening Perspective
Interesting perspective addressing real issues that Palestinians confront. Extremely sad tale of the effects of a horrible school bus accident.
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