In My Mailbox #1

In My Mailbox was started by Kristi over at The Story Siren

Risk by Elana Dykewomon

To change the world, you need to take risks. That's something Carol Schwartz knows bone deep. And it's something she's perpared to do.
She learned about risk as a girl. She never understood why, but her father chose to go to Vietnam. She never saw him again.
Now Carol, a Berkeley-educated idealist, tutors high school students. A Jewish lesbian, she's a community activist in Oakland. And she's learned to take risks of her own. She gambles her inheritance, her love, even her own well-being.
Across the years-from the mid-eighties to the post-911 world - the stakes get ever higher and her gambles more desperate. Until finally Carol finds out just what's left when the last gamble is lost.