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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.
"The work brings the histories of real people, their memories, and their food to evocative life."
"A lively, novel look at a 20th-century immigrant experience." - Kirkus Reviews
