The Circle of Kourabies

<p>They crossed the ocean for a promise and built a life out of memory itself.</p><p></p><p>Told through recovered letters heirloom recipes and real immigration records <em>The Circle of Kourabies</em> is a true raw history of courage.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>The work brings the histories of real people their memories and their food to evocative life.</p><p> A lively novel look at a 20th-century immigrant experience. <em>- Kirkus Reviews</em></p>