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A castle in Brooklyn, Shirley Russak Wachtel

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A castle in Brooklyn

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Shirley Russak Wachtel

1944, Poland. Jacob Stein and Zalman Mendelson meet as boys under terrifying circumstances. They survive by miraculously escaping, but their shared past haunts and shapes their lives forever. Years later, Zalman plows a future on a Minnesota farm. In Brooklyn, Jacob has a new life with his wife. Esther. When Zalman travels to New York City to reconnect. Jacob's hopes for the future are becoming a reality. With Zalman's help, they build a house for Jacob's family and for Zalman, who decides to stay. Modest and light filled, inviting and warm with acceptance, for ail of them, it's a castle to call home. Then an unforeseeable tragedy, and the grief, betrayals, and revelations in its wake, threatens to destroy what was once an unbreakable bond, and Esther finds herself at a crossroads

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