'Leaving Long Island' is the story of a woman whose life experience includes the loss of a child, the explosive end of a long marriage, and the discovery of a genetic inheritance endemic to the Ashkenazi Jewish population. This second-half-of-life memoir is a compelling narrative of both pain and happy second chances. Fern Kupfer's work has appeared in Newsweek, Redbook, Family Circle, Woman's Day, The Women's Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher...