Grievance of the Sad Angel

In a Jewish village on the eastern European steppe, a Cossack pogrom destroys Ruchmiel Cohen’s family and changes the course of his life forever. Separated from his mother and siblings, Ruchmiel and his twin brother grow up in a brutal orphanage, where hunger, violence, and loss test his fragile faith.

Against every expectation, Ruchmiel survives. His journey carries him from the ruins of the Old World to immigrant New York, the battlefields of the First World War, and a hard-won family life...