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Rebecca Sacks

Biography

Rebecca Sacks

Rebecca Sacks is a graduate of the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. She has been awarded grants, prizes and fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Mellon-Sawyer Documenting War Seminar Series. A graduate of Dartmouth College, she worked for several years at Vanity Fair before moving to Tel Aviv to pursue an M.A. in Jewish studies. CITY OF A THOUSAND GATES is her first novel. She lives in Los Angeles.

Rebecca Sacks

Books by Rebecca Sacks

City of a Thousand Gates
by Rebecca Sacks - Fiction

Hamid, a college student, has entered Israeli territory illegally for work. Rushing past soldiers, he bumps into Vera, a German journalist headed to Jerusalem to cover the story of Salem, a Palestinian boy beaten into a coma by a group of revenge-seeking Israeli teenagers. On her way to the hospital, Vera runs in front of a car that barely avoids hitting her. The driver is Ido, a new father traveling with his American wife and their baby. Ido is distracted by thoughts of a young Jewish girl murdered by a terrorist who infiltrated her settlement. Ori, a 19-year-old soldier from a nearby settlement, is guarding the checkpoint between Bethlehem and Jerusalem through which Samar --- Hamid’s professor --- must pass.