Thanks to Her

After two tragic deaths in the family and a vitriolic shivah call, Bette and Anna Hacker's mother, brother, and stepmother are gone. Their father, Philip Hacker wants to protect his remaining children and fill the void of his own emptiness, but struggles with both. And then the Moses family moves in next door. The effect that the two families have on each other's lives is something no one could have foreseen...

By Ruti Tanenwald