Product Summery

• Release Date: 2026-04-21T07:00:00Z
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Once upon a time, I was simply moving along the road of life with my husband, Jon. It was an ordinary, beige kind of life—and it worked. A warm beige. We felt, and truly were, lucky and blessed. Normal. On the morning of October 7th, 2023, Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s cherished twenty-three-year-old son, Hersh, was taken from a music festival meant to be a celebration of unity and love—and in that instant, her life was permanently divided into The Before and The After. In the months that followed, she and her husband, Jon, fought relentlessly—both publicly and behind the scenes—to push for the hostages’ release, trying to hold onto humanity amid overwhelming emotional and psychological torment. Her raw and heartfelt pleas soon made her the public face of the hostage crisis. And when Hersh, along with five others, was executed after surviving 328 days of violence and cruelty, she also became the face of its deepest and most devastating cost. In When We See You Again, Rachel pours her pain, love, and longing onto the page, giving voice to those broken by circumstance, and reminding us that even when the world feels consumed by darkness, light still exists—though in a different form. The question she quietly asks is how we find it. Her experience is extreme, but at its core, this is a universal story of living with grief. It is about remembering and persevering, about suffering and still loving. “There are days when I break completely,” she writes. “I have cried for an entire day straight. I didn’t think it was physically possible, but the weeping never let up. That is a very long time to cry. I kept hoping I would run out of tears. And then there are days when there is a whisper of sun. Not out there in the sky. In me. In us.”

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