This was a page turner, an intensely gripping read. I happened upon the book in the bookstore and I ended up having to buy it because I could not leave the store without it [at a time when I did not have much disposable income).

It centers on the orthodox wife of a Jewish rabbi, and the choices she finds herself making after she is raped by a black man and then finds herself pregnant and doesn't know who the father is. It also contrasts the choices she made with the choices of her girlhood friends.

2019: I think that the author chose the rapist to be black so that it would be obvious when the baby was born whether or not the baby was the child of the rabbi. But current day me flinches.