This is a memoir by a Canadian author that I have enjoyed a couple of her books--Alison Pick. She seems a little young for a memoir but once I started reading I can see why she wrote this, almost as a way the help work through her feelings. She was raised Christian and family practiced but she finds out that her father's parents--her grandparents had fled from Czechoslovakia at the start of WWII because they were Jewish. Several of the relatives were murdered in the Holocaust. She starts to study Judaism and starts to see where she sees where her life already matches some Jewish practices. She is also engaged to be married but he does not really have any faith. She starts to study to convert to Judaism but is not sure she will be accepted because of the possibility of a mixed marriage--both not Jewish, the Rabbi and group that decides this normally don't allow it. At several points in this book it is very emotional for her and she is crying--I really felt for her because of everything going on and how she wasn't getting simple answers in any direction. I really good read and interesting story/life.
I have posted it on PBS, there was 1 WL for it & it has been accepted. Will mail off at some point this week.
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