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October 7th
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.99
ISBN13: 9781972197226
Publisher: Willow River Press
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One day of violence. Five lives caught in its aftermath. A world struggling over what comes next.
October 7th moves across Gaza, Israel, the United States, and beyond, tracing the reverberations of a day that changed countless lives.
A captive soldier faces an uncertain fate. An interrogator wrestles with conscience and duty. A physician navigates divided loyalties. A media figure becomes caught in the battle over who controls the narrative. And an academic discovers how quickly distant events can become deeply personal.
Through a chorus of intimate Jewish, Muslim, Israeli, Palestinian, American, and diasporic perspectives, Allan Havis explores what happens when public catastrophe enters private lives-and when grief, loyalty, identity, and truth become impossible to separate.
Unflinching yet deeply humane, October 7th refuses easy villains, easy answers, and the comfort of a single narrative. Instead, it asks what it means to witness, to survive, and to remember when the same event can carry profoundly different truths for those living through its consequences.
A timely work of literary fiction about conflict, conscience, and the human lives behind the headlines.
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