Melody Sullivan, an angry 16-year-old haunted by her mother's death and a sexual assault, defies her father and embarks on a search for friends in a most difficult place where she is forced to face her pain and the power of love and forgiveness.
Alice Rothchild Livres
Alice Rothchild's autobiography chronicles her evolution from a 1950s "good girl" to a bold feminist obstetrician-gynecologist. She navigates the challenges of a male-dominated medical field, embracing her irreverent spirit while advocating for women's rights and autonomy. Through personal anecdotes and professional experiences, Rothchild highlights the contradictions and sexism she faced, making her journey both inspiring and thought-provoking.
Since 2003, obstetrician Alice Rothchild has traveled annually to Israel/Palestine with other concerned Americans, to learn about health and human rights situation of politically marginalized communities, especially Palestinians. Condition Critical presents key blog posts and analytical essays that explore everyday life in Israel, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza up close and with searing honesty. These eyewitness reports and intimate stories depict the critical condition of a region suffering from decades-old wounds of colonization and occupation. Condition Critical dares (and inspires) its readers to examine the painful consequences of Zionism and Israeli expansion and to bend the arc of the moral universe towards justice.