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Rebecca Sacks is the author of City of a Thousand Gates. The lasting division brought about by the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the painful truths about occupation and the larger tensions of living in this contentious warring space are at the center of Rebecca Sacks’ debut novel City of a Thousand Gates. But so is a poignant humanizing of this story as the characters battle for security and dignity and a convivial space for the future of their own children. From the outset, you realize that City of a Thousand Gates is ambitious and expansive. The book’s opening pages include a directory with the names and brief descriptors of some 28 characters whose lives intersect in the West Bank setting of the novel. There are Israeli settlers and Palestinians and a diversity of storylines and relationships to keep track of. ....
By Rebecca Sacks Harper: 400 pages, $8. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. I was nearly certain, before I started reading “City of a Thousand Gates,” the debut novel by Rebecca Sacks, that I was going to hate it. The way it was being pitched reminded me of the early breathlessness around “American Dirt,” a novel that was marketed as the definitive take on the Mexico-to-U.S. immigration experience. Promotional materials promising “Gates” would “spark admiration and controversy” immediately put me on edge; learning the author had spent only a couple years in Israel and the West Bank, the politically fraught setting of the book, made me even warier. ....