Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board a ship
from Bremerhaven to Portland, Maine, and anti-Semites murder her mother
in Portland. In the orphanage at St. Cloud’s, it’s clear to Dr Larch,
the physician and director of the orphanage, that the abandoned child
not only knows she’s Jewish, but she’s familiar with the biblical Queen
Esther she was named for. Dr Larch knows it won’t be easy to find a
Jewish family to adopt Esther; he doubts he’ll find any family to adopt
her.
When Esther is fourteen, soon to become a ward of the state, Dr. Larch
meets the Winslows, a philanthropic family with a history of providing
for unadopted orphans. The Winslows aren’t Jewish, but they detest
anti-Semitism and similar prejudice. Esther’s gratitude to the Winslows
is unending. As she retraces her steps to her birth city, Esther keeps
loving and protecting the Winslows – even in Vienna.
The final chapter of this historical novel is set in Jerusalem in 1981,
when Esther is seventy-six.
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