A Day of Small BeginningsPoland, 1906: on a cold spring night, in the small Jewish cemetery of Zokof, Friedl Alterman is wakened from death. On the ground above her crouches Itzik Leiber, a reclusive, unbelieving fourteen year old whose fatal mistake has spurred the town's angry residents to violence. The childless Friedl rises to guide him to safety only to find she cannot go back to her grave. Now Friedl is trapped in that thin world between life and death, her brash