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...English seminar that week, Laura was asked to write about a recent event. She responded with an angry poem addressed to her father’s shooter, which ended with the promise, “this hand will find you / I am his daughter.” In a recent interview with The Crimson, she recalled the emotional roller coaster she was on as she wrote the poem, her sense of confusion and powerlessness, as though her entire world had been turned upside down. The poem disguised her fears beneath a façade of anger and threats...
...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...
...book that draws the reader deep into the author’s mind, something with which Laura is not entirely comfortable—she became a journalist, she 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...
Much of the story memorialized by the book is still ongoing. Laura is still in touch with the Khatib family, though she reports that since the outbreak of the most recent violence the family has become increasingly difficult to contact; both phone lines and mail services are no longer working. Just last month, however, she traveled to Israel with her father, and together they went to meet the Khatibs, a meeting Laura called “the world’s craziest blind date.” Despite initial awkwardness, she reports that it went well; it ended with...
...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...