Salt on a Robin's Tail

<p>Andrea Kott thought of herself as the welfare Jew. </p><p></p><p>The daughter of a single mother whose depression and drinking pitched them into poverty her stormy life looked nothing like that of the Jewish kids she knew: It defied every stereotype she associated with being Jewish-having an intact family and material wealth and becoming a bat mitzvah. </p><p></p><p>Alienated and ashamed Kott felt ineligible to be Jewish yet hungered for connection to the tradition and to God. It took a near-fatal accident her mother's death marriage and motherhood and losing a beloved brother for her to find her Jewish home.</p><p></p><p><em>Salt on a Robin's Tail: An Unlikely Jewish Journey Through Childhood Forgiveness and Hope</em> is a true story of love and loss struggle and survival despair and possibility. It shatters stereotypes and inspires reconciliation with the painful past.</p>