Evvie Kerr has always been a caretaker—of her self-absorbed younger sister Miriam; Miriam’s tender-hearted son Ben; and the sisters’ Russian-born father Michael, a successful screenwriter who bears the scars of a traumatic childhood. Evvie’s sudden diagnosis with the disease that killed her mother forces each of the Kerrs to re-examine their roles in their lively, tightly knit Jewish family, and beckons Evvie herself to stretch into a larger and riskier life than she’d ever imagined. A family love story, Invisible Threads explores the interwovenness of our individual fates with the strivings and sufferings of our ancestors, celebrating the sweet and sometimes disorienting grace of rebirth.
Evvie Kerr has always been a caretaker—of her self-absorbed younger sister Miriam; Miriam’s tender-hearted son Ben; and the sisters’ Russian-born father Michael, a successful screenwriter who bears the scars of a traumatic childhood. Evvie’s sudden diagnosis with the disease that killed her mother forces each of the Kerrs to re-examine their roles in their lively, tightly knit Jewish family, and beckons Evvie herself to stretch into a larger and riskier life than she’d ever imagined. A family love story, Invisible Threads explores the interwovenness of our individual fates with the strivings and sufferings of our ancestors, celebrating the sweet and sometimes disorienting grace of rebirth.
