The Flight of the Veil

<p><strong>A well-crafted tale about trauma and miracles. -<em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></p><p>Nicky Covo is a Holocaust survivor. In 1990 Nicky - a Brooklyn psychiatrist - receives a letter from Abbess Fevronia the head of a women's monastery in Greece. Although Nicky believes the rest of his family died at Auschwitz he learns that Theodora a mysteriously silent nun who's lived at the monastery since 1944 may be his baby sister Kal. With his old friend and new love Helen Nicky returns to Greece - to harrowing memories of his fighting with the partisans and to a reunion with his beloved sister. <em>The Flight of the Veil</em> explores the intersections of guilt and memory faith and tragedy fate and miracle.</p>