Life is never simple. Our path’s are never straight and narrow. Sometimes the greatest trials we endure lead us to the future we didn’t think of, but when we get to that future, it’s where we were meant to be.
Four years ago, Naomi Ragen broken from her standard storytelling (A young women who rebels from a religious Jewish family) with The Tenth Circle.
She opens the book with a tell tale line “It happened, like all horrible things happen, at the most inconvenient time”.
Abigail Samuels is living the perfect life. She and her husband, Adam, a successful accountant have three children. Their youngest daughter, Kayla is in her final year at Harvard Law School, recently engaged to a doctor. When Adam is arrested, accused of funneling money to a terrorist organization, their lives are turned upside down. Not knowing how to deal with the sudden changes in her life, Kayla drops out of school and flees to Israel.
In the Israeli desert, she meets a mystical religious guru who changes her life. When Abigail is sent to Israel to bring her daughter back to America, she begins to heal from the sudden changes and pain in her life.
I loved this book. I couldn’t put it down. Ms. Ragen took a risk, and it was well worth it. The journey of this family and the changes that they are forced to make felt so real to me. I could feel their fear, the pain, the agony of not knowing what would happen.
The Tenth Song- A Good Book
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