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– December 22, 2011
This novel is about family secrets and how quickly and tragically a family can fall apart. Rabbi Saul Rosen lives a seemingly ordinary life with his wife Jane and their three daughters. When Jane’s mother dies in Florida, she travels there alone to deal with her grief and tie up loose ends. But she finds that her mother lived an entirely different existence than the neat one she had assumed. Saul is left alone with his girls for the first time and is overwhelmed by their needs, which include depression, while he continues to deal with the demands of his synagogue. When a dying congregant confesses about an old affair, this tale turns from that of a dysfunctional family to a horror story. We follow the close details of Jane and Saul each encountering unusual and extreme challenges to their marriage and daughters’ well being.
Miriam Bradman Abrahams, mom, grandmom, avid reader, sometime writer, born in Havana, raised in Brooklyn, residing in Long Beach on Long Island. Longtime former One Region One Book chair and JBC liaison for Nassau Hadassah, currently presenting Incident at San Miguel with author AJ Sidransky who wrote the historical fiction based on her Cuban Jewish refugee family’s experiences during the revolution. Fluent in Spanish and Hebrew, certified hatha yoga instructor.
