"Ariel, lives with [her father] on Edgar Allan Poe Street in Manhattan, longing for the grandparents she never knew and the mother she never had. An amteur kabbalist and suddenly a klezmer violin virtuoso, Ariel sets out to rescue her father from his demons and denial by summoning the people who she thinks hold the key to Oliver's [her father] emotional black hole-his dead parents, Rose and Lothar."--Jacket.