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...Revenge is, in the end, the remarkable story of a young woman who wouldn’t forget. While Laura??€™s research on revenge is enlightening, the book revolves around her relationship with the shooter’s family. During her year in Jerusalem, Laura learns that the shooter, Omar Khatib, is still serving time for the attack. She manages to track down his family and, introducing herself to the Khatibs only as Laura, an American journalist covering the Middle East, begins the hugely emotional process of befriending them. She struggles to keep her composure at times, such...
...explains, because she wanted to write about others. There was, however, no way to avoid the profoundly personal nature of her story and, indeed, that is what makes it great. She recently talked with Bill Clinton, who called to praise the book and mentioned how he related to Laura??€™s brother’s difficulty with her parents’ divorce. While this public intimacy with her life may be understandably disconcerting for her, it reflects how successfully her book makes its readers feel like privileged confidants...
...Laura Blumenfeld did get revenge, but not according to traditional expectations. It was, as her father would say, constructive revenge: she made Omar Khatib realize his mistake and acknowledge the humanity of his would-be victim. Omar is still in jail, but has begun corresponding with Laura??€™s father and, in an interview with Barbara Walters for ABC, freely acknowledged that Laura had made him see the error of his ways...
...know their enemies, the animosity would ebb away and the cycle of revenge would die out. While its applicability to the Middle East is painfully evident, its simple truth is relevant to any conflict. Read this book, not only because it is well-written and thoroughly enjoyable, but because Laura??€™s is a message that needs to be spread...
...schemes to obtain control over their daughter Bertha’s education. Laura plant seeds of suspicion in the Captain’s mind about the true paternity of Bertha and about his very ability to reason. This self-doubt festers into violence and madness, and Laura??€™s triumph in controlling both her daughter and husband’s fate...