Luca was a mixture of different races and cultures—that’s why he had no problems getting along in New York and why he could empathize with so many different patients at the hospital. He was a living, breathing example of the pluralism that we should all aspire to. But maybe the muddling had a downside. Sarah had once objected to raising Samuel in a mixed community rather than the Orthodox one she’d grown up in. If everyone’s perspective is equally right, she warned her husband, then there is no absolute right, and everything goes. It could leave you without bearings, adrift and lost.
