One Day , Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar Akkad

New York Times Bestseller. Finalist for the National Book Award. Shortlisted for the 2025 Palestine Book Awards. Some books arrive exactly when the world needs them most.

It started with a single tweet. On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad wrote what millions of people were already feeling but couldn’t quite say. That tweet has now been seen more than 10 million times. This book is what came next.

Part memoir, part manifesto, part heartsick breakup letter with the West — this is El Akkad’s most raw and vulnerable work to date. Drawing on two decades of reporting on the War on Terror, Ferguson, Black Lives Matter, and the ongoing slaughter in Gaza, he asks a question that lingers long after the last page: What do we owe each other, and what happens when the promise of justice turns out to be a lie?

“I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now.” — Tommy Orange, bestselling author of There There

The New York Times calls it “a bracing memoir and manifesto,” and we’d be hard-pressed to say it better. This is a book for anyone who has felt the rupture — in family rooms, on college campuses, on city streets — and is still searching for something better.

Settle into a quiet corner with this one. It will stay with you long after you’ve walked back out into the salt air.

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