The Abu Aker Family; Foreword: "Our Blood Will Plant Its Olive Tree"; Acknowledgments; Prologue: An Autobiographical Experiment; Part I.A Second Life; Chapter 1. The "Living Martyr"; Chapter 2. The Deheishe Story; Chapter 3. "What Does It Mean Human?"; Chapter 4. Through the Looking-Glass in Cairo; Part II. Three Returns; Chapter 5. First Return: Mourning a Martyr; Chapter 6. Second Return: After the Gulf War; Chapter 7. Third Return: Violating and Transforming Space; Epilogue: Crossing Borders; Appendix; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U
Summary
This memoir recounts the time the author spent as a human rights worker on the West Bank. In a moving meditation on the many forms of both autobiography and resistance to power, Gunn tells the story of a Palestinian teenager who was critically shot during a stone-throwing demonstration and deemed a "living martyr" of the Intifada
