Eliza naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, saul, absorbed in his study of jewish mysticism; her brother, aaron, the vessel of his father's s...Eliza naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, saul, absorbed in his study of jewish mysticism; her brother, aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, miriam.