{"product_id":"one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this","title":"One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER, National Book Award, Non-Fiction, United States, 2025  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'A howl from the heart of our age'  Richard Flanagan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A unique and urgently needed book.'  Naomi Klein\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A powerful, uncomfortable but thought-provoking read.' Dua Lipa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Clear, elegant and devastatingly truthful...Read this shatteringly honest book.' Max Porter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad, an urgent and necessary reckoning with what it means to live in the West today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the various Wars on Terror, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. \u003ci\u003eOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against\u003c\/i\u003e This is a chronicle of that painful realisation, a moral grappling with what it means-as a citizen of the US, as a father-to carve out some sense of possibility during these devastating times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is El Akkad's nonfiction debut, his most raw and vulnerable work to date. 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