Publisher's Synopsis
When young WIlliam Lars Goolsby immigrates to America in the early 1900's, he finds not only a new life, but a new last name. Through error, his name becomes Goodbye when he is processed through Ellis Island. But with unrelenting determination, the young Norwegian sailor accepts his fate and begins the family legacy. Against a backdrop of historical American and world events, three generations of the Goodbye family experience challenges, romance, tragedy, war, successes and failures, all of which are aligned with the family resolve..."to do what we have to do."
