I feel like this was the most important book I read this year. Certainly the most eye opening to me, an American Jew, who grew up visiting my grandparents in Israel. I don‘t know how Dr. Abuelaish was able to write with such grace about the stifling poverty and restrictions that he experienced as a Palestinian civilian living in Gaza, and about the cruel and senseless loss of his three daughters during an Israeli air strike in 2008.