A memoir about a daughter’s relationship with her father, a rabbi who is both a pillar of the Jewish community and a violent man harboring an intricate set of secrets.
As the eldest daughter of a young, charismatic Chicago rabbi, Sara Sherbill idolized her father. But when his frequent rages threaten to destroy their family, she informs the police — an act whose repercussions will change the course of her life.
Twenty years later, beset by depression and a lifetime of secret-keeping, Sara is still living in the shadow of her father’s abuse, even as she navigates marriage and new motherhood.
When Sara receives a text from a young woman she’s never met — informing Sara that she is also a victim of her father’s, Sara’s world unravels; Sara always thought the only girl her father had been abusing was herself.
An unflinching exploration of one daughter’s struggle to come to terms with her singular father, this is also a story about learning to survive the past — and what can be reclaimed.
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Nonfiction
There Was Night and There Was Morning: A Memoir of Trauma and Redemption
- From the Publisher
September 1, 2023
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