Repentances
Description:... As an oil painting ages, its paint may become increasingly transparent, and sometimes the ghost of another painting underneath will reappear. They are called repentances. Critically acclaimed author Annette Meyers uncovers the ghosts of the past in her haunting novel, Repentances. It is winter of 1936 in New York and Jewish immigrant Nathan Ebanholz is desperate to get his wife and baby daughter from the old country to America. As the book opens, Nathan is about to make the final payment on their passage. But Nathan's joy is short-lived. The ship bringing his wife and child to America is already at sea, but Miri and Rayzela are not on board. The novel is set in two parts. The first part deals with the consequences of a terrible lie. As a result, a crime is committed, two crimes, in fact, a kidnapping and a murder. The lie and the subsequent crime impact the lives of all the characters. In the second part of the novel, the past and the present meet head-on. Spanning generations and decades, Repentances is a breathtaking historical mystery novel in which sins from the past never stay buried, and the only hope is to uncover the truth.Annette Meyers lives in New York City.
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