The Headstone Mason’s Daughter

Chava already knew plenty about the business of dying by the time her parents passed away unexpectedly, leaving her to tend to the family lot at the local cemetery. As the daughter of a headstone carver, she spent much of her youth between the rows of granite and marble, reliving experiences she moves between familiar names and recalls familiar stories from her family’s past.

But while Chava feels committed, to the point of compulsion, to her family’s history as holocaust survivors, it’s her last living cousin, Yaki, who wants nothing more than to move away from their family’s grim shadow. Their bond and love, once the spotlight of Chava’s lonely life, begin to fracture as they sharply diverge in their attitudes toward their shared past. This fracture unravels Chava’s own sense of who she is, what she wants, and the thin line between honoring the dead and moving on with your own life.

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