Goddess of Battle

This book had to be written. It's characters cried out for a chance to speak to a world that sees the Israelis and Palestinians in a constant state of strife and is rarely given the chance to see them as they are -- human beings, each with their own beliefs and narratives. It was an opportunity for me to give all these people, who I met in the course of three decades of reporting, a voice. It fictionalizes real experiences -- like covering suicide bombings -- and calls upon a tapestry of real people in the creation of every character. It was written and rewritten, the end was sometimes devastating and at times optimistic.