(Little, Brown, and Company) This intricate novel opens in Florida with Beverly Rabinowitz, a middle-aged doctor who escaped from Poland during World War II, as she vacations with her boyfriend and his son. During that trip, a chance encounter leads her to sense that her father, long believed to have been killed during the war, is close by. It is the first of many seemingly random events that propels Beverly toward a shocking discovery. Using multiple narrators (including an elusive sixties-era fugitive, an FBI agent, and an Israeli soldier), Reiken weaves a story about a family’s mysterious past, illustrating how disparate, far-flung people can be connected and how the truth about those connections can change entire lives. Reiken directs the graduate writing program at Emerson College.
