Poland, 1906: on a cold spring night, in the small Jewish cemetery of Zokof, Friedl Alterman is wakened from death. On the ground above her crouches Itzik Leiber, a reclusive, unbelieving fourteen-year-old whose fatal mistake has spurred the town's angry residents to violence. The childless Fried...
The jacket he had worn to Zokof lay draped over the chair. A stray blade of grass hung limply from its outer pocket. Nathan looked at it sadly. He was no longer sure what had happened earlier that day, how much of what he’d seen or heard was real, how much an exaggerated p...