![]() ![]() ![]() I had some trouble adjusting to the pacing of the book it's structured into 1,001 short segments in varied points of view: a Palestinian father, his family, and their experiences and loss an Israeli father and family and his tragedy migratory and other habits of birds newspaper headlines, legal proceedings, and public speeches related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflicts retracing in detail crucial moments of two especially fateful days in the fathers' (who become friends) lives bullet manufacturing details and imagined life details of soldiers and more.īut the sections all work together, and the book serves as both a sweeping look at an enormously complex issue with endless personal implications for those involved *and* a microscope-level examination of the events that came to define everything for these two seemingly different but ultimately heartbreakingly similar families. ![]() I admit that I had trouble getting through the first part, but I'm so very glad I stuck with it. ![]() This is beautiful, powerful, illuminating, and heartwrenching. ![]()
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