Raised in a conservative and emotionally volatile Pale stinian family in Brooklyn\, Yara thought she would finally feel free when she married a charming entrepreneur who took her to the suburbs. She's go tten to follow her dreams\, completing an undergraduate degree in Art and landing a good job at the local college. As a traditional wife\, she also raises their two school-aged daughters\, takes care of the house\, and has dinner ready when her husband gets home. With her family balanced with he r professional ambitions\, Yara knows that her life is infinitely more rew arding than her own mother's. So why doesn't it feel like enough? After he r dream of chaperoning a student trip to Europe evaporates and she respond s to a colleague's racist provocation\, Yara is put on probation at work a nd must attend mandatory counseling to keep her position. Her mother blame s a family curse for the trouble she's facing\, and while Yara doesn't rea lly believe in old superstitions\, she still finds herself growing increas ingly uneasy with her mother's warning and the possibility of falling vict im to the same mistakes. Shaken to the core by these indictments of her li fe\, Yara finds her carefully constructed world beginning to implode. To s ave herself\, Yara must reckon with the reality that the difficulties of t he childhood she thought she left behind have very real\, and damaging\, i mplications not just on her own future but that of her daughters.
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