![]() ![]() 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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