Author: Rachel Goldberg-Polin On the morning of October 7, 2023, Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s beloved 23-year-old son, Hersh, was stolen from a music festival billed as a celebration of unity and love. In that moment, her life was forever separated into The Before and The After. Over the next 11 months, she and her husband, Jon, worked tirelessly—in public and behind the scenes—to secure the hostages’ release and breathe some humanity into the situation while they were experiencing relentless emotional and psychological torment. The power of her raw and fervent pleas soon made her the face of the hostage crisis. And when Hersh and five other captives were executed after surviving 328 days of violence and cruelty, she also became the face of its ultimate cost. In When We See You Again, Rachel pours her pain, love, and longing onto paper, giving voice to the broken among us, and reminding us that even when the world feels choked with darkness, light exists in a different way. How do we find it? Her own experience has been extreme, but at its essence, this is a universal story of trying to live with grief. It is a story of how we remember and how we persevere, of how we suffer and how we love. Hardback 288 pages
