Powerfully demonstrates that fellowship can bridge seemingly intractable divides.
Hope amid trauma.
In this bighearted travelogue, friends and peace activists Abu Sarah, a Palestinian whose brother died from injuries suffered in Israeli custody, and Inon, an Israeli whose parents were killed by Hamas, explore the region’s militarized landscape and learn about the experiences of others impacted by decades of violence. Their eight-day journey through Israeli and Palestinian communities is an effort to topple “walls of ignorance and hatred,” writes Inon. In Jerusalem, the West Bank, and elsewhere, they recount fraught local history and share their experiences as socially conscious entrepreneurs whose work in the tourism and hospitality industries aims to foster “connection and peacebuilding.” Though their prose occasionally reads like ad copy for their respective businesses, their generosity sets a remarkable example. Forgiving his parents’ murderers “has set me free,” Inon writes. Their leaders have failed them, and cross-cultural “co-resistance” is the most promising way forward, Abu Sarah writes. They don’t break new ground with their accounts of the onerous laws and border security zones that dominate Palestinian life, but as a vessel for the devastating stories told by those they speak to along the way, their book is invaluable. An Israeli tells them that during Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, his two youngest grandsons survived by playing dead alongside their murdered siblings and parents. A Palestinian doctor recalls that during an Israeli strike on Gaza, he saw a woman sitting with her dead child’s body, “just waiting for more family members to come so they could go bury him.” Others recount atrocities at holy sites and military checkpoints, and the security clampdowns that followed. Not even the authors’ many mentions of their business ventures diminish the potency of the important stories they share.
Powerfully demonstrates that fellowship can bridge seemingly intractable divides.Pub Date: April 14, 2026
ISBN: 9798217086511
Page Count: 240
Publisher: Crown
Review Posted Online: Jan. 19, 2026
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2026
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorkerstaff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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