This is the best book I read in 2007. A Jewish mother abandons her toddler daughter in a small Russian village when the rest of her family is wiped out in a pogrom. She makes her way to New York, and a year later learns her daughter is probably alive in a Jewish settlement in Siberia. With no money, she makes her way west to Seattle, and north to Alaska, with the hope of getting to Siberia to reclaim her daughter. Read it and tell me what you think. —Gerry