Odessa: Gabrielle Sher Poetry and father to Jamie

and father to Jamie

a simple mistake shatters the peace of the desert

But this Christmas

But when her mother’s condition suddenly deteriorates

the shy and reserved Minette finds that the more she opens her heart to others

Odessa: Gabrielle Sher Poetry and father to JamieIn a powerfully imagined Russia at the height of the pogroms, a grief stricken family turn to ancient magic to bring their daughter back from the grave. Yetta is a bright, quick teenage girl with a wild, searching spirit. Stifled by her mothers anxiety, her fathers rules, and the path thats been laid out for her, she craves the kind of freedom she doesnt know the edges of. But her family has reason to be cautious and restrictive. Fear has wrapped