The Miracle of the Lights

When her girlfriend, Tova, leaves their upstate New York Hasidic community to avoid an arranged marriage, eighteen-year-old Chava goes in search of her among the hundreds of homeless LGBTQ youth in New York City.  Once there, she faces the challenges of life on the street and must reconcile the insulated world she has known with the new and unfamiliar choices she confronts.  But nothing else matters—not the cold, the onset of an illness, or her brush with danger—nothing, except finding Tova.

Cindy Rizzo lives in New York City with her wife, Jennifer, and their two cats.
She has worked in philanthropy for many years and has a long history of involvement in the LGBT community.
Cindy serves on the boards of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, and SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders).
She and her wife have two grown sons, a wonderful daughter-in-law, and a baby granddaughter.