And yet, when they learn of each other’s stories, they recognize the loss that connects them. Rami and Bassam had been raised to hate one another. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on to the schools their children attend to the checkpoints, both physical and emotional, they must negotiate.īut their lives, however circumscribed, are upended one after the other: first, Rami’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Smadar, becomes the victim of suicide bombers a decade later, Bassam’s ten-year-old daughter, Abir, is killed by a rubber bullet. An epic novel rooted in the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers.īassam Aramin is Palestinian.
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