The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table

<p><em>'Let this table be a home for me. Let it be a home for all the lost and the hungry. May all my children and my children's children eat at this table.'</em></p><p>In the 1870s a girl is born under a tree - her birth tree - chosen to give her strength and wisdom. When the tree is cut down she follows it into the white man's world working as a cook for the big house on the island. Her tree has become a kitchen table one she will pass down through successive generations as a legacy - a way of carving out her family stories. Now generations later a young man and his mother fight for ownership of the table.</p><p><em>The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table</em> is a moving testament to culture lived lost and found the strength of family adapting and gathering together.</p>