After her father's death, eleven-year old Sierra doesn't feel comfortable in her own skin. Her little brother just doesn't get it that Papa's not around the corner serving meals at the family luncheonette anymore, and her mother, lost in her own sorrow, is trying too hard to get their household back to normal. But confiding to a portrait of her historical idol, Abraham Lincoln, seems to offer Sierra the kind of solace that her wacky but well-meaning Jewish-Cuban extended family can't quite give her yet. This is a heartbreaking, funny, and always comforting look at a family that must let a loved one go to find each other again.
