Every Moment Is a Life: Gaza in the Time of Genocide

“To write stories in the heart of an unfolding genocide is to draw ink from the depths of your own heart,” writes Huzama Habayeb, the Arabic editor of Every Moment Is a Life. “To read stories of genocide, while the slaughter rages relentlessly, unceasingly, means that—at the very least—your heart will be crushed.” She is right. Reading this anthology is a crushing experience. More than once the book has to be put down, and each time the reader picks it up again, because the people who wrote it deserve to be heard to the end. The collection was compiled by the Palestinian American novelist Susan Abulhawa. It brings together heart-rending true stories by eighteen young writers from Gaza. They wrote […]