What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781851689965)

David Harris-Gershon and his wife, Jamie, moved to Jerusalem full of hope. Then, mere days after Israel thwarted historic cease-fire negotiations among the Palestinians, a bomb ripped open Hebrew University's cafeteria. Jamie's body was sliced with shrapnel; the friends sitting next to her were killed.

When a doctor handed David some of the shrapnel removed from Jamie's body, he could not accept that this piece of metal changed everything. But it had. The bombing sent David on a psychological journey that found himdigging through shadowy politics and traumatic histories, eventually leading him back to East Jerusalem and the Hamas terrorist and his family. Not out of revenge. Out of desperation.

Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, this fearless debut confronts the personal costs of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and our capacity for recovery and reconciliation.

Author: David Harris-Gershon
ISBN-10: 1851689966
ISBN-13: 9781851689965
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2013
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2013
Publishers Weekly 07/22/2013
Booklist 09/15/2013 pg. 19