From Dust, a Flame

Hannah has grown up moving from place to place with her mother and brother, Gabe, without much explanation for their unsettled life. On her seventeenth birthday, strange changes to her body make those unanswered questions impossible to ignore. Her mother leaves to find help, then fails to return. Hannah and Gabe begin looking for answers themselves, uncovering relatives and a history their mother never shared. Their search reaches from contemporary life into Jewish folklore and the family’s past in occupied Prague. Alongside an emerging attraction to Ari, Hannah must work out what her transformations mean and how inherited secrets are shaping the people she loves.