Five time WINNER in the annual New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards, author Mary E. Carter’s books all speak with a Jewish voice. Born in the San Fernando Valley before there were freeways, Carter grew up in this peaceful diaspora. Turning eighty in 2025 she has stories to tell and questions to ask, most particularly: How on Earth do we speak even as we may be “knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door”? “This new book by award-winning author Mary E. Carter is a powerful and gripping autobiographical account of her journey into adulthood and into Judaism. At one level, the book is an expanded modern midrash on the Biblical story of the binding of Isaac from an invaluable and much-needed feminist perspective. In speaking of the Torah, we read in Pirke Avot that we should "turn it and turn it again, for all is in it." Mary has turned it yet again, and after reading her latest book, you'll never think about our matriarch Sarah in quite the same way. Let's hope that Mary's tongue remains unbound for many years to come.” Rabbi Jack Shlachter physicsrabbi@gmail.com $15.00 ISBN 9798234040596 Paperback 318 Pages Published by Tovah Miriam