Nineteen years earlier, Jennie-the only child of poor Eastern European Jews who survived the Holocaust-met a wonderful young man, Petr Mendes. Madly in love, Jennie never thought about the differences between her Orthodox immigant home and Peter's until he took her to his parents' Atlanta mansion, where she discovered America's Jewish aristorcracy, a cold, disapproving Southern family and a place where she could never belong. Jannie's blind passion for Peter resulted in unbearable heartbreak-and a secret she kept from her parents, her friends and most of all from Jay, whom she was now about to marry.
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