![]() ![]() IC is about a young woman named Rebekah (funky spelling to de-Jewify herself - kind of as effective as Nathaniel Hathorne adding a 'w') who is a reporter for a NY rag (think Post but somehow pretentious, not sure how she pulled that off) that is a glorified tabloid without the glory. This line kept coming back to me as I read the very unfortunate Invisible City, a gritty murder mystery that I would not have wasted my time on, but for the tie in with the Hasidic community, a distant relative to me as an Orthodox Jew, and a strong desire to rip this book to shreds upon completing it. One of my favorite lines from a movie what I have since forgotten goes something like this: But getting to the truth won't be easy-even as she immerses herself in the cloistered world where her mother grew up, it's clear that she's not welcome, and everyone she meets has a secret to keep from an outsider. Rebekah's shocked to learn that, because of the NYPD's habit of kowtowing to the powerful ultra-Orthodox community, not only will the woman be buried without an autopsy, her killer may get away with murder. Then Rebekah is called to cover the story of a murdered Hasidic woman. But she's also drawn to the idea of being closer to her mother, who might still be living in the Hasidic community in Brooklyn. Now a recent college graduate, Rebekah has moved to New York City to follow her dream of becoming a big-city reporter. Neither Rebekah nor her father have heard from her since. ![]() Just months after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, an Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, abandoned her Christian boyfriend and newborn baby to return to her religion. A finalist for the Edgar and Mary Higgins Clark Awards, in her riveting debut Invisible City, journalist Julia Dahl introduces a compelling new character in search of the truth about a murder and an understanding of her own heritage. ![]()
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