Across the Narrows

<p>In 1924 at Brooklyn's Kings County Hospital Ruby del Palacio delivers a blue baby weeks early. The baby girl dies for want of oxygen. Within a year Ruby delivers another baby girl named Alice.</p><p><br></p><p>Gradually realizing that her sole role in the del Palacio household is to conceive deliver and nurse babies trapped by societal expectations in a time of limited women's rights and rampant injustices Ruby summons the courage to sue for a legal separation from her Colombian husband Juan. Her efforts are met with a counter lawsuit resulting in Juan being granted custody of their six children. Months later he flees the state with the children leaving Ruby abandoned and bereft.</p><p><br></p><p>Decades later Alice embarks on a journey to find her long-lost mother. It is only when a dear friend imparts a profound revelation to Alice explaining that forgiveness necessitates relinquishing all hope for a different past that Alice finds the strength to accept her history.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Across the Narrows </em>unravels as a sweeping family saga centered around a tragedy that shapes the del Palacio family's destiny and leaves little room for forgiveness. With themes of love loss and resilience this poignant novel explores the transformative power of forgiveness and the pursuit of one's own identity in the face of adversity.</p>