
Draw Near to Me
In this highly-anticipated sequel to Swimming with Ghosts, the discovery of a desperately-hidden secret brings a family to the brink of collapse—the exact place where they may ultimately find true healing and forgiveness.
One day before a freak accident lands devoted wife and mother Kristy Weinstein in a coma, her husband, David, discovers a devastating secret she’d been keeping for months. While Kristy’s life hangs in the balance, broken-hearted David, a high-risk OB with a God complex, must grapple with his pride and demons in order to make impossible decisions about his career, wife, and the new baby that has served as a joyful family distraction from the roiling tensions of Kristy’s betrayal. Their college-aged daughter Mia, nicknamed “Scoop,” clashes with her family as she tries to solve the mystery of the events leading up to her mother’s coma, and Patrick, Kristy’s half-brother, fights to hold on to his sobriety and his beloved fiancée while he nearly crumbles under the fear of losing his sister and the responsibility of showing up for Kristy’s family.
With Kristy increasingly unavailable to them, each family member is pushed to find kinship in surprising places and to heal old wounds by drawing near those who have damaged them the most. This is a timely story about the emotional and spiritual work it takes to repair an impossible rupture in a marriage, a relationship, a family, and in turn the larger communities in which we live, hope, and love.
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Book details
- Author
- Michelle Brafman
- Imprint
- Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 320
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Series
- The Swan Dive Series
- Subjects
- Fiction › Family Life › Marriage & Divorce
Fiction › Literary
Fiction › Family Life › Parenthood & Children
Fiction › Women - Topics
- marriage and infidelity · family secrets · forgiveness and redemption · medical drama · coma and recovery · parenthood · broken relationships
- ISBN-13
- 9798887981352 (Paperback)9798887981345 (Hardcover)
About the author
MICHELLE BRAFMAN is a fiction writing instructor at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Washing the Dead.
Brafman’s short stories and essays have appeared in the Washington Post, Slate, Tablet, Lilith Magazine, Bethesda Magazine, Superstition Review, Potomac Review, minnesota review, Fifth Wednesday Journal and Gargoyle. She holds degrees from the University of California, San Diego and Johns Hopkins University.
When she’s not writing, Brafman contributes regularly to the Lilith Magazine blog and has led its salon discussions at theaters and arts centers throughout the Washington, DC area. Much of her work illuminates seldom told stories of the Jewish experience.
Michelle lives in Glen Echo, Maryland with her husband and two children.








