Catherine Temma Davidson Boeken

The story revolves around Lisa's grandfather's 100th birthday celebration in a vast southern Californian apricot orchard, which symbolizes the family's heritage and history. As the family gathers, the orchard serves as a poignant backdrop, intertwining their present with memories of the past, highlighting themes of family, legacy, and the passage of time.

A Greek-American woman travels to the land of her ancestors and discovers that while she resembles them, she is not one of them. The narrator is a third-generation American who finds a job in Greece as a reporter for an American news agency and after several romantic affairs returns to America. A first novel by a poet, author of Inheriting the Ocean.