One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

"It is difficult to understand the nature of a true rupture while it is still tearing through the fabric of our world. Yet that is precisely what Omar El Akkad has accomplished, putting broken heart and shredded illusions into words with tremendous insight, skill and courage. A unique and urgently needed book." -- Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger "[A] bracing memoir and manifesto.... With precision and passion, [El Akkad] compels readers to close the emotional distance between 'us' and 'them' and to consider the immense suffering of civilians with renewed urgency." -- The New York Times " One Day is powerful, angry, but always compelling in its moral logic, and damn hard to put down.... by the end my heart was drumming.... For me it was cathartic, almost spiritual....It is an important book, a must-read" --Dina Nayeri, The Guardian "This book is a howl from the heart of our age. I struggle to find more precise wording that might capture its ferocious, fracturing rage, as it seeks to