Rachel’s
Secret
Second Story Press
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Sanders, Shelly, 1964-
Rachel’s secret / Shelly Sanders.
Issued also in electronic format.
ISBN 978-1-926920-37-5/E-ISBN 978-1-926920-46-7
I. Title.
PS8637.A5389R33 2012 jC813’.6 C2011-908650-6
Copyright © 2012 by Shelly Sanders
Editor: Malcolm Lester
Line and Copy Editors: Kathryn White, Katie Todd
Design: Melissa Kaita
Cover photo © iStockphoto
Printed and bound in Canada
Second Story Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council
and the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We acknowledge
the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.
Published by
Second Story Press
20 Maud Street, Suite 401
Toronto, ON M5V 2M5
www.secondstorypress.ca
Proceed thence to the ruins, the split walls reach,
Where wider grows the hollow, and greater grows the breach;
Pass over the shattered hearth, attain the broken wall
Whose burnt and barren brick, whose charred stones reveal
The open mouths of such wounds, that no mending
Shall ever mend, nor healing ever heal . . .
—excerpt from In the City of Slaughter,
Hayyim Nahman Bialik
In memory of my late grandmother,
Shelly Talan Geary, to honor her courage and strength.
For all people who suffer from prejudice and discrimination.