Run You Down

Just weeks after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, Aviva, a Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, left her Christian boyfriend and newborn baby to return to her religion. Neither Rebekah nor her father has heard from Aviva since. But now, as a journalist in New York City, Rebekah has developed connections of her own in the Hasidic community in Brooklyn. Shes beginning to understand the cloistered world Aviva chose over raising her daughter, even if Rebekah still cant quite forgive her mother for leaving her. When shes called to cover the story of a young Hasidic mother found dead in her bathtub in upstate New York, Rebekah is surprised to discover that the woman was once engaged to Aviva's younger brother, Sam. Rebekah realizes she might, after all these years, be in a position to meet her mother. But as she investigates the young womans death, Rebekah also begins to fear that Sam might be a ticking time bomb. . . whose anger is aimed at the Hasidic community he left behind many years ago. Julia Dahl has written another powerful novel, an exploration of the defining choices her characters make and a taut mystery that will grip listeners from the beginning to the stunning conclusion.