Status Updates From Fire in Every Direction

“...Our white city was settled in its predictability. A reserved and self-conscious younger sibling to Beirut’s sophisticated and worldly older sister. This was a discrepancy our parents never failed to point out as they romanticized Beirut’s openness against Amman’s stuffiness, forgetting that the deathly spiral of the former had forced them to seek life in the latter.”

“...Boys and girls were paraded and lined up before being shot in front of their parents. A pregnant Palestinian woman had had her stomach sliced open by a Zionist terrorist, the fetus smashed. Grandparents were mocked and beaten to death by militias roaming the streets. The Zionists had wanted a gruesome spectacle, an example to others, people around her were saying.”

Some authors really aren't the best audiobook narrators 🫠