Her Day of Reckoning

This is a memoir written in the third person about the life of a middle-class Jewish girl living on Long Island who is put in jail for a long period as a first-time offender by her family and held only for lack of bail. It is a humorous story featuring heart-warming moments in her experience of her dysfunctional family. The book is also a denouncement of prison conditions in Nassau County, New York. It calls for reform.