London: Bloomsbury Publishing in Association with Goldsboro Books, March 2020. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A complex novel based on the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers - Bassam Aramin a Palestinian and Rami Elhanan an Israeli - who live in a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on to the schools their children attend to the checkpoints, both physical and emotional, they must negotiate. And then their lives were upended: Rami's thirteen-year-old daughter, Smadar, becomes the victim of suicide bombers and ten years later, Bassam's ten-year-old daughter, Abir, is killed by a rubber bullet. Together they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace, founding the non-profit organization Narrative 4. With their permission, McCann crafted this novel out of a combination of fictional and nonfictional material, with these fathers' moving story at its heart. #484 out of 500 numbered copies, signed on a special preliminary page, bound in black cloth with gilt titling on spine, black page edges with yellow birds on fore-edge, this is the gold version in a shiny gold dust jacket. Illustrated. 463 pp. ISBN: 978-1526624505.