In Odessa, Gabrielle Sher introduces Yetta, a restless teenage girl coming of age in a shtetl shadowed by fear, where disappearances and whispered violence press in on daily life. After a brutal attack leaves her dead, her father turns to forbidden texts and uncertain magic to bring her back, but what returns is not entirely the daughter he lost. As Yetta begins to sense the truth of what she has become, the novel unfolds into a haunting story of grief, identity, and the consequences of trying to reverse the irreversible.
We asked Sher to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know the books that shaped her life and influenced her writing.
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