Stay: A Sto­ry of Fam­i­ly, Love, & Oth­er Trau­mas explores life’s many lay­ers: the joy­ous and painful com­plex­i­ty of fam­i­ly, love, gen­er­a­tional trau­ma, and iden­ti­ty — the quest to love oth­ers well with­out los­ing our­selves. It’s also about the blue­print of the Jew­ish expe­ri­ence, the hid­den cost of fam­i­ly secrets, and the grief and promise of all life’s chap­ters. Told through the eyes of a young sis­ter-turned-midlife par­ent, Fin­gersh weaves past and present, trac­ing how her family’s secret odyssey in try­ing to help save her younger broth­er resur­faces just as she’s try­ing to res­ur­rect the writer-self she’d aban­doned — only to watch her own col­lege-bound child’s life sud­den­ly veer off course. Stay is a rare, inti­mate look at two of our biggest epi­demics — men­tal ill­ness and chron­ic med­ical ill­ness — and how they shape our rela­tion­ships, sense of self, and the archi­tec­ture of a fam­i­ly. Above all, Stay: A Sto­ry of Fam­i­ly, Love, & Oth­er Trau­mas is for any­one who wants to think, feel, laugh, cry, and per­haps see their own life’s tra­jec­to­ry and path for­ward with new eyes.