Debbie's job as a social worker is all-consuming--until her thoughts and roiling emotions become too much to bear. Can she escape from the ghosts of her past, from the love she never received as a child? And what will be with her brother, whose flight from his childhood took him as far away as the U.S. Military in Iraq? As Debbie's relationship with Rebbetzin Shoshana Cohen, she begins to make sense of her world, drawing conclusions she never imagined possible. An involved and diverse novel with an important message.