Leaving Long Island and other departures

Leaving Long Island is the story of a woman whose life experience includes the loss of a child, the end of a long marriage, and the discovery of a genetic inheritance endemic to the Ashkenazi Jewish population. This is a second-half-of-life memoir without a sensational theme of surviving molestation, substance abusive or captivity, but a dead-true depiction of an ordinary life of both pain and happy second chances.