How do we cast off the haunts of guilt and allow for hope? How do we free ourselves of past shames to let in love? Larry Zuckerman invites us to explore such questions in his richly textured and transporting novel. To Save A Life brings together Malka, who has stolen her dowry and fled an arranged marriage in Grodno, and Yaakov, who has left his family in Valozyn in the aftermath of an attack, both struggling to build new lives and to forge connections free of their painful pasts. Beautifully written, and brimming with scenic details of 1900s New York, from pickets to pushcarts to singing waiters, this is a historical novel readers will relish. -Jennifer Rosner, author of The Yellow Bird Sings and Once We Were Home

In this absorbing story of Jews settling in the "Golden Land" of New York in the early 1900s, the search for freedom is revealed as more than finding a place. It is also a journey toward reconciliation with the past, with faith, with dogma; this is the ground of hope for the future. Zuckerman writes with empathy, insight, and delightful flashes of wry humor, creating characters that seem to breathe beyond the page. I love it. -Robyn Cadwallader, author of The Anchoress and The Fire and the Rose