Fortune's Daughter

This fierce and beautiful story charts the histories of two women: Rae young unmarried and far from home awaits the birth of her first child. Lila a fortune-teller with no interest in the future lost her own daughter more than a quarter of a century earlier in New York. When these two women meet in Southern California it's earthquake weather - the time when unexpected things happen. Immediately their lives and fortunes become intertwined as Rae tries to break away from the man she has been with since high school and Lila reaches into the past to search for the child she lost. This contemporary world is set against a series of Russian folktales told by an old woman who lives at the edge of Manhattan in a place so well hidden it can only be found once in a lifetime.