What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist who Tried to Kill Your Wife?: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (936 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1851689966 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Instead, he dug into Israeli government records to uncover what triggered the attack, then returned to East Jerusalem to meet the terrorist and his family.Part memoir, part political thriller, part exposé of the conduct of the peace process, this fearless debut confronts the personal costs of the Middle East conflictand reveals the human capacity for recovery and reconciliation, no matter the circumstance.. David Harris-Gershon and his wife, Jamie, moved to Jerusalem full of hope. Jamie was hurled across the room, her body burned and sliced with shrapnel; the friends sitting next to her were instantly killed. Then, in the midst of a historic cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians, a bomb shrieked through Hebrew University’s cafeteria. David was desperate for answerswhy now? why here? why my wife? But when a doctor handed him some shrapnel removed from Jamie’s body, he refused to accept that this bit of metal made him one of us”another traumatized victim who would never be able to move on
In alternating chapters, Harris-Gershon details the couple’s personal story while juxtaposing it with his ongoing historical research. From Booklist *Starred Review* Readers can be forgiven for expecting Harris-Gershon to tread on familiar ground in his Memoir of Jerusalem. A transformative reading experience. As he works his way toward meeting the convicted terrorist who tried to kill his wife, Harris-Gershon finds himself considering how a man becomes a monster. But this enormously compelling title smashes preconceived notions while delivering an unforgettable and provocative story about the roots of terrorism and the nature of victimhood. Initiated after the author struggled for years with the emotional aftermath of his wife’s traumatic injuries from the 2002 terrorist bombing of Hebrew University, this book is as much about tryi
A Riveting Memoir by David Harris Gershon Rachel M. Port In 2002, while her husband ate lunch at home, Jamie Harris Gershon was seriously injured when a bomb exploded in a cafeteria at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where they were graduate students. The friends she was sitting with were killed; she survived because she was reaching under the table to get something out of her pack. She suffered burns over 30% of her body, and a nut, distorted by the force of the explosion, was lodged in her small intestine. After this was removed surgically, a doctor gave it to David, who kept it.After this life-changing experience, Dav. Riveting account of a man's search for hope. Raised in a conservative Jewish family, David Harris-Gershon considered Palestinians, if he gave much thought to them at all, to be the bad guys. "Growing up, I just thought of Palestinians as another enemy of the Jewish people," he said. "I thought of them as a caricature of evil. And that is sadly common among American Jews."One would think that the experiences that Harris-Gershon and his wife had in Israel would only have reinforced that opinion.On July 31, 2002, while David Harris-Gershon was enjoying a lunch of pasta and tomato pesto at their home in Jerusalem. Powerful, moving, and surprisingly funny Ayala Livny This book is a beautiful traipse through what it is to hurt and what it is to move forward. While supporting his wife through her physical and psychological recovery from a bombing in Jerusalem (where their two friends and others were killed), Harris-Gershon goes through his own process of experiencing and understanding his secondary trauma. Weaving together the political backdrop with his personal experiences, Harris-Gershon gives the reader a different and deep perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian "situation", as well as insight on the universal process of movi