The Journey of Sarah Levi-Bondi - R. P. Toister

R. P. Toister is a psychologist and has been the director of the parent training program at the Mailman Center for Child Development at the University of Miami Department of Pediatrics. He has edited several professional textbooks and published articles for parents and professionals. His recent historical novel is titled — The Journey of Sarah Levi-Bondi.

GENRE: Historical Fiction

Blurb:

The novel takes you on a young girl's journey from the Jewish ghetto in Rome in 1943 to New York City in 1961, where she struggles to honor her father's last wish, "to do something good for the world". She becomes the director at Rockefeller University project to cure childhood leukemia. After successful treatments she is asked by the US president to treat the grandson of a Nazi war criminal who sent her family to Auschwitz. Her decision underscores the irony and meaning of life.