Publisher's Synopsis
Two families whose lives intersect through immigration and war, poverty and bigotry, tragedy and compelling friendship, find their stories brought to life through the eyes of Felicity Garcia, the adopted daughter of Walter and Angel Ryan. Her observations fill her journal as she develops a novel-like narrative of a multi-generational and multi-ethnic journey that inspires her own drive toward authorship. The story of her adoptive parents and loving neighbors spans parts of three centuries from 1888 to 2043. From barbaric lynching to inexplicable friendship, from Liberia to Belize and the hurricane that practically destroyed Galveston, two families find their ways into the heart of Felicity, who has herself suffered the unimaginable loss of her parents through a double murder. This "not quite a novel" shares many scenes from the lives of those she has adopted in return. Her writings reveal that she can be amusing and profound, silly and poignant, arrogant and warming, and deeply grateful for the new life she has been given.
