Between the Falling Sky

By Samuel Akira

Gaza, 2024. A building collapses on Khalil Street, and three strangers converge on the rubble: Miriam, an Israeli nurse who crossed the border to help and can't explain why she stayed. Tariq, a Palestinian engineer who reads the mathematics of falling buildings the way others read scripture. And between them, a child trapped beneath the concrete, whose rescue will bind their fates together in ways none of them chose. In a landscape of collapsed buildings, overwhelmed clinics, and impossible choices, Miriam and Tariq build something fragile and extraordinary - not a romance, but a partnership forged in dust and necessity, held together by the stubborn belief that helping is enough. That you don't need to fix the world. You just need to show up. This is not a political argument. It is a story about people who found each other in the ruins and chose to build something when everything around them was falling. The jasmine is real. It grows where it is planted.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GP5LGN1L
• ISBN13: 9798248858620
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"