Amen, Amen, Amen
Scribner, 2009 Until the age of ten, Abby Sher was a happy child in a fun-loving, musical family. But when her father and favorite aunt pass away, Abby fills the void of her loss with rituals: kissing her father’s picture over and over each night, washing her hands, counting her steps, and collecting sharp objects that she thinks could harm innocent pedestrians. Then she begins to pray. At first she repeats the few phrases she remembers from synagogue, but by the time she is in high school, Abby is spending hours locked in her closet, urgently reciting a series of incantations and pleas. If she doesn’t, she is sure someone else will die, too. The patterns from which she cannot deviate become her shelter and her obsession. Amen, Amen, Amen is an elegy honoring a mother, father, and beloved aunt who filled a child with music and their own blend of neuroticism. It is an adventure, full of fast cars, unsolved crimes, and close calls. It is part detective story, part love story, about Abby’s hunt for answers and someone to guide her to them. It is a young woman’s radiant and heartbreaking account of struggling to recognize the bounds and boundlessness of obsession and devotion.Amazon
here it is in audiobook…narrated by yours truly
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