The Apostate's Daughter

On a snowy morning in 1908 Baltimore police try to identify the corpse of a teenage boy who has frozen to death. He's not a Polack one says or a Heinie or a Guinea. No the other replies he's an Izzy.<p> Some forty years later Jennifer Miller a college junior has no idea that this dead boy has been shadowing her life. Her father Lee a man of many talents has long ago broken with his immigrant family; shed his religion; transplanted his wife and daughter; and decided to raise Jennifer a Protestant exacting a pledge that she forget all about being Jewish.<p> Lee has mentored her indulged her entertained her with wicked puns and unintentionally strengthened her by forcing her to cope with his moods rages and elaborate schemes to substantiate his gentile identity. But now the obedient daughter has a new love in her life a classmate World War II veteran Cleve Hamilton who one fateful day sat down next to her in church. She must decide whether to perpetuate the family lie or reveal the truth as her father reversing his past warnings insists she must.