Title: Martyrs' crossing
Description: An Israeli lieutenant and a Palestinian woman find themselves on opposite sides when rioting breaks out after the lieutenant refuses to let the woman and her sick child through a checkpoint. The child's grandfather, a prominent Palestinian American surgeon, must also make choices as the violence continues.
Subjects: Americans, Children, Death, Fathers and daughters, Fiction, Mothers and sons, Palestinian Americans, Soldiers, New York Times reviewed
Places: Israel, Jerusalem