At the age of sev­en­ty-two, Anna Miran­sky begins to read her father’s poet­ry and fables in her first and for­got­ten lan­guage, Yid­dish. She is changed by what she finds. In his writ­ing, the poet and fab­u­list Peretz Miran­sky, a Holo­caust sur­vivor and mem­ber of the cel­e­brat­ed lit­er­ary group Yung-Vilne, reveals aspects of his inner life about which he had nev­er spo­ken when he was alive. His daugh­ter dis­cov­ers new details about fam­i­ly mem­bers, his lit­er­ary col­leagues, and his rela­tion­ship with her moth­er and step­moth­er. Most impor­tant­ly, she dis­cov­ers Peretz Miransky’s life­long poet­ic themes and mis­sion to keep Yid­dish and the fable form alive and flour­ish­ing. Many of Miransky’s poems and fables are trans­lat­ed into Eng­lish to illus­trate Anna’s dis­cov­er­ies. Through­out the book, Anna Miran­sky exam­ines her com­pli­cat­ed rela­tion­ship with her father through the lens­es of lan­guage bar­ri­ers and gen­er­a­tional trau­ma. As she delves deep­er into his life, she comes to ful­ly embrace her father, her first lan­guage, and her culture.