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by Kathy Crane (Author), Sandia Harrison (Author)
They crossed the ocean for a promise and built a life out of memory itself.
Told through recovered letters, heirloom recipes, and real immigration records, The Circle of Kourabies is a true, raw history of courage.
In 1909, spirited Penelope leaves her seaside village in Greece for America, bound by arranged marriage to a candymaker she hardly knows. Across another deck and another storm, a small boy named Nickolas sails with his parents toward the same uncertain shore. From the heat of the candy shop in East St. Louis, life in the trenches, to a post-prohibition tavern in the sun-washed groves of Los Angeles, their families endure wars, loss, hard work, prohibition, and renewal, until fate entwines their bloodlines into one circle that never breaks.
