Qesher Book Club: The Girl Who Rode the White Lion

Qesher hosts a session on a novel that opens in Germany in 1938, as young Sarah Frank escapes an SS officer and finds refuge in a traveling circus, whose lion trainers, acrobats, and elephants become her family. The story then moves to New York City in 1957, where a routine autopsy at the city zoo uncovers a silver SS ring engraved with a skull inside an elderly lion. For chief veterinarian Mark Spencer, the discovery ignites a transatlantic search through postwar Paris, Tel Aviv, and New York toward the buried story of a girl who dared to challenge an unfathomable evil.