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When seventeen-year-old Jenna stops eating, her mother is plunged into the dark maze of the often fatal and perpetually mysterious disease of anorexia nervosa. In a fight against time, Valerie has to battle a demon that threatens her daughter's life and her own mental health. As both Jenna's weight and Valerie's hope plummet, a family quickly learns all they can about the least understood mental illness with the highest mortality rate.

Unlike many in Depression-era Kansas, 23-year-old, single Sara McGurk has a comfortable life, but a trip to the doctor reveals she is with child. The results are banishment from home and a violent argument with her lover that leaves her bleeding and abandoned in front of a forbidding limestone house. A group of social outcasts takes her in. Now, Sara must face the future and protect her child while coping with her strange fellow residents.

More than a Holocaust memoir, The Risk of Sorrow is an intimate look at two women of different generations, religions, and cultures who forge an extraordinary friendship as together they examine deep questions of survival, faith, humanity, and love. This is a story for today's world.