Richard Sacks

Richard Sacks, MD, born in Brooklyn, NY, now calls New Jersey and Florida his home. He has been a practicing orthopedic surgeon in Toms River, NJ for over forty three years. Dr. Sacks enjoys travel, golf, writing and most importantly family time. He has been married to Roni for fifty two years. They have two sons, Jonathan and Eric, their daughters-in-law, and four grandchildren.

His premier novel, Ijeoma: A Mother’s Journey To Save Her Daughters, was inspired by actual events. His compelling tale profiles a young Nigerian girl who vows to save her daughters from the horror of female genital mutilation(FGM) to which she herself had been subjected. Her journey takes her from the small village of Achi to the teeming streets of New York City. It is a chronicle of courage, will, and determination.

Ijeoma: A Mother’s Journey to Save Her Daughters focuses on eighteen-year-old Ijeoma, who is forced to undergo the ruthless act of tribal cutting as a condition of marriage to an abusive man who threatens the same on his daughters. Ijeoma, inspired by true events, follows Ijeoma as she leaves her Nigerian village for New York, vowing that what was forced on her will not happen to her children. But her plans are stalled after she is arrested and detained, awaiting a deportation that could send her and her daughters back across the ocean to a fate that is too horrific to bear.

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“A compelling tale of maternal strength and determination” – Kirkus Reviews