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).
