Description: Poet Judy Goldman's debut novel tells the moving story three generations of sisters in a Southern Jewish family. The central story belongs to Thea, who carries with her a painful memory from a childhood incident with her mother. Years later, a packet of letters, written in Yiddish by Thea's grandmother to her sister, holds the mystery to her mother's anger and silence. Thea's sister, Mickey, urges her not to translate them. But Thea relies on her own instincts and begins to unravel the secrets of her family. In doing so, she is able to face the sadness in her own life as well as a multitude of questions raised by the letters -- questions of marriage, sisters, and what it means to belong.

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