In Fin­ger­printz, Lisa Printz Roday recalls her father’s shock­ing death jux­ta­posed with nav­i­gat­ing two har­row­ing preterm births. From sit­ting shi­va, through her jour­ney to moth­er­hood, this mem­oir is a mov­ing glimpse of a close­ly knit Jew­ish fam­i­ly and how its val­ues shape and sus­tain the author. This rich­ly tex­tured nar­ra­tive moves effort­less­ly between the for­ma­tive mem­o­ries of Lisa’s father, Har­vey Printz, and how his Jew­ish ideals sus­tain her dur­ing each new cri­sis she faces after the extreme­ly pre­ma­ture birth of her first son. When she is test­ed again by the pre­ma­ture birth of her sec­ond child, it is her father’s last­ing Jew­ish wis­dom and the fin­ger­prints he left behind that see her through. Fin­ger­printz cap­tures Lisa’s imper­fect jour­ney, shows how her faith and her­itage shaped her choic­es, and pro­vid­ed her the emo­tion­al for­ti­tude to sur­vive back-to-back NICU expe­ri­ences. Fin­ger­printz is a pow­er­ful cel­e­bra­tion about draw­ing strength from the tra­di­tions of her fam­i­ly, gain­ing resilience from the tragedies of the past, hold­ing fast to the unbreak­able bonds between a father and his griev­ing daugh­ter, and advo­cat­ing for hope even dur­ing darkness.