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Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Washing the Dead

by Michelle Brafman

This is a story of mothers and daughters, of secrets radiating across generations, of betrayals and abandonments and of forgiveness and transcendence.

Barbara Pupnik Blumfield is living a satisfying life far from her ultra-Orthodox Jewish roots. She’s a nursery school teacher at a Reform synagogue. She has a wonderful, loving, upbeat husband who is a financial planner. She has a teenage daughter, Lili, who has discovered long-distance running as a way of coping with her attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).