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Where the wandering ends, a novel, Yvette Manessis Corporon

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Where the wandering ends

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Yvette Manessis Corporon

a novel

"Two young friends are separated by unspeakable tragedy during the Greek Civil War, haunted by a vow to return to one another and their home on the island of Corfu where queens, villagers, and goddesses come together to prove there is no force more powerful than the magic of a mother's love"--, Provided by publisherCorfu, 1946?In a poor Greek community, ten-year-old Marco is perhaps the poorest of them all. But it wasn?t always that way. His grandmother once worked for the royal family where Marco?s mother played alongside young Prince Phillip himself. Now Greece is on the brink of civil war, and Marco?s mother still clings to the desperate hope that somehow the royal family will save her own. As the war turns deadlier, Greece?s Queen Frederica takes a defiant stand against the communists, announcing that she will save her country?s most innocent by opening children?s villages. When the communist partisans erect camps of their own, children are ripped from their mothers? arms; entire villages are emptied. Young Katerina has been best friends with Marco for as long as she can remember, cementing their bond by stealing scraps from her family?s table to sneak to him. But when the communists reach their village, loyalties are tested as devastating secrets threaten to emerge. Katerina and Marco are separated just before her family flees on foot. At their final goodbye, Katerina and Marco promise to find their way back to the village, and to each other. This haunting childhood vow launches events that will take decades to unravel.--, Jacket flap