Jerusalem, Drawn and Quartered: One Woman’s Year in the Heart of the Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and Jewish Quarters of Old Jerusalem

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On a night in 1999 when Sarah Tuttle-Singer was once barely 18, she was once stoned by Palestinian kids just outdoor one of the crucial gates to the Old City of Jerusalem. In the years that followed, she was once terrified to explore the ancient city she so loved.

But, sick of living in fear, she has now chosen to live within the Old City’s walls, living in each of the four quarters: Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and Jewish.

Jerusalem’s Old City is the most up to date piece of spiritual real estate on this planet. For millennia empires have clashed and crumbled over this place. Today, the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians plays out daily in her streets, and the ancient stones run with blood. But additionally it is an peculiar city, where people buy vegetables, and sooth colicky babies, where pipes break, where the pious get high, and young couples sneak away to kiss in the shadows.

Sarah has thrown herself into the maelstrom of living in each quarter―where time is measured in Sabbath sunsets and morning bells and calls to prayer, in stabbing attacks and check points―keeping the holidays in each quarter, buying bread from the same bread seller, making friends with people who were once her enemies, and learning one of the crucial secrets and sharing the stories that make Jerusalem so special, and so exquisitely peculiar.

Jerusalem, Drawn and Quartered is a book for anyone who’s wondered who truly lives in Israel, and how they coexist. It’s a book that skillfully weaves the personal and political, the heartwarming and the heart-stopping. It’s a book that only Sarah Tuttle-Singer can write. The Old City of Jerusalem may be set in stone, but it’s at all times changing―and these pages capture that.

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