“There are so many truths. Which one do you want?” Rachel Weissman, a pre-med student from a Jewish family, has little interest in Israel until she meets Michael, a Palestinian doctor in New York on a fellowship. Their paths cross when she interns at his clinic just at the start of the First Intifada when anti-Israel protests spread across her college campus. She is attracted by Michael’s strength and passion to help his people. He sees her as a recruit to his cause. Drawn together by their differences, an unlikely romance develops, forcing them each to confront pre-existing loyalties and to uncover truths buried under lifetimes of lies. Moving from a Palestinian refugee camp to a college campus in New York to an Israeli prison, Children of Lies is a fast-moving story of two people who fall in love and become trapped in a geopolitical maelstrom.
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