Beyond the Blue

Beyond the BlueBy: Leslie Gould Two Worlds. Two Women. One Love. In 1975, an American girl named Genevieve loses her mother when a plane full of orphans crashes in war ravaged Vietnam. Miles away in the countryside, seven year old Lan, a Vietnamese girl, is forced out of her family home by her own brother who has joined the Viet Cong. Worlds apart, these two girls come into womanhood struggling to recover a sense of familyuntil their journeys suddenly converge. Lan

his tenth birthday is not something to look forward to but something to dread

glinting sea glass

Carley begins to see a way to shape his life

You are cordially invited to the birthday event of the year

A struggling midlist writer whose novels barely command four figures

Mercurial and unscrupulous

Dad tries to encourage sleepiness by pushing Analise through the park

and kinder-because Sesame Street is the most trusted name in early learning

the vast sweep of history and the cruel

while Ben was one of the foremost champions of American independence

If they stay

and as many of the wolves become more domesticated