Ms. Hempel Chronicles

Beatrice Hempel is alone in New York. Starting her first job in a middle school, grieving for her father, and strangely distanced from her boyfriend, her friends, and her mother, she feels at a dead loss to explain how she came to this point. How many doors closed to lead her here? Why and where do we lose the lustre of childhood, that incredible potential that she sees every day in her students?