Publisher's Synopsis
Two children, separated by time and place, bound by an unbreakable spirit.
Gerti, a four-year-old Hungarian Jewish girl, is no ordinary child-she is a spirit, tasked with guiding the souls of 200,000 murdered children to freedom during the darkest days of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her gift is extraordinary, her purpose unwavering, and her destiny far greater than even she can imagine.
Decades later, Patti, a young American girl, endures her own trauma at home. She deposits her pain into a life-threatening tumor and heals herself in a transformational bone marrow transplant. But her journey does not end with survival- it leads her to a place of unfathomable sorrow, where Gerti is waiting.
A haunting and luminous tale, pneuma bridges the realms of the living and the dead, proving that even in the face of devastation, healing, hope, and transcendence are possible.
