Honor your father and your mother -- You shall have no other gods before me

"Sara Sherbill was raised by a father who was both a representative of God and a broken man harboring an intricate set of secrets. The charismatic leader of a splinter Orthodox religious community, he was a devoted rabbi beloved by his congregation - but behind closed doors his wife and children lived in fear of his unpredictable violence and dangerous manipulation. Sherbill's riveting story explores what happens when a daughter is tasked with keeping a father's secrets -- and the cost of keeping them too long. It asks: How do we live with suffering? What does it mean to heal? Even as we try to put the past behind us, is there something that can be reclaimed? Written with grace and raw honesty, There was Night and there was Morning is a searing portrait of a woman learning how to overcome the lingering effects of abuse, and how to build a life - and a family - from the fragments. Most of all, it's a story about learning to live alongside our traumas without letting them consume us--what some might call redemption" --