Thursday, November 11 • 7:30 pm • The Mandel JCC

Sponsor: Bonnie and John Osher
Dessert reception sponsor: The Jewish Federation of Cleveland

In The Tenth Song, Abigail Samuels has no reason to feel
anything but joy on the morning her life falls apart. A successful Jewish American woman, she is married to a well known accountant and is in the middle of planning her daughter Kayla’s wedding. Kayla, too, wakes up that morning with the world in the palm of her hand. Having lived the charmed life of a well loved child from a happy family, she is bright, pretty, a Harvard law student who has never really questioned the path she found herself on. With a shocking suddenness, all is smashed to pieces in ways they could never have dreamed. A heartbroken Kayla runs away to a desert commune run by a charismatic mystic; Abigail rushes to save her, only to find that there is nothing more whole than a broken heart. Naomi Ragen is the author of seven novels, including several international best sellers. An American, she has lived in Jerusalem for the past thirty nine years and was recently voted one of the three most popular authors in Israel.

$10 Mandel JCC Members
$13 General Public
Limited seating
Reservations required
Dessert reception