Rebecca Sacks: “City of a Thousand Gates”

Rebecca Sacks discusses her novel, “City of a Thousand Gates,” which explores the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by testing its boundaries, with twenty-nine main characters from across the grid. She says she wanted a narrative shaped by the many ways there are to think about Israel. Each character is written from the inside, and through what they care most deeply about. The result is a panoply of characters that shape a narrative in a world of conflict, the method: psychological realism and a full range of human impulse.

Excerpt from “City of a Thousand Gates” by Rebecca Sacks.

Crossings: Hamid, Vera, Ori, Samar

Excerpted from City of a Thousand Gates © 2021 Rebecca Sacks. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.