Robin Chotzi­noff, a colum­nist and writer for Denver’s alter­na­tive week­ly West­word, was raised as an agnos­tic by a Catholic moth­er and a Jew­ish father. Her rest­less youth includ­ed peri­ods of drug abuse and a bad mar­riage. She lat­er remar­ried, enjoy­ing a good rela­tion­ship and rais­ing two chil­dren. Her hap­pi­ness led her to spir­i­tu­al explo­ration and rekin­dled her inter­est in Judaism. Going beyond the culi­nary and cul­tur­al yid­dishkeit of her father, she begins to study Hebrew and joins a local Reform syn­a­gogue. Her ini­tial attrac­tion to Judaism occurred because of its tra­di­tion of argu­ing with God, embrac­ing sex­u­al­i­ty as a gift to be enjoyed, and encour­ag­ing action rather than abstract belief. The book depicts her spir­i­tu­al growth as she pre­pares for her bat mitz­vah and her father’s death. She tells her sto­ry with warmth and humor, but her for­ay into Jew­ish spir­i­tu­al­i­ty seems super­fi­cial. This book may appeal to seek­ers in the ear­ly phase of their spir­i­tu­al journey.