A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall – x2

This won the Pulitzer Prize in the category of General Nonfiction in 2024 and it’s soooo good.  



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

2024 by Macmillan Publishing Group / 255 pages 
Read by Peter Ganim 6h 44m
Rating 9.75 / General Nonfiction 
(Both read and listen
ed)

NOTE** This excerpt is from the Prologue which is nat a part of the Audible version

I think it may have been added on after either the author or an editor saw that the body of the book didn’t quite gel around a plot and the reader was dumped into the main plot without knowing who the characters were.  Terrible mess that might be for some.   I’m very glad this is my second reading and that I have the Audble as well as the Kindle. Without the Kindle version a LOT would have been lost.  That Prologue seems innocuous, but it sets the stage very nicely.  The

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