’The power and integrity of Harris’s prose turn this novel into something valuable. For thirty years they believe that the persistence of their hearts will bring their little family together again… steadfastly continue to search for Belle. Never defeated, Belle is adopted again, and her beautiful singing voice ultimately leads her to Hollywood, and to love and marriage.
When she is adopted into a loving Japanese American family, it seems Belle’s troubles are over until World War II breaks out. Dowager Countess Harriet Eden, Mary's mother and John's aunt, lives in a self-inflicted world of darkness as penance for a sin so heinous that only she and John know of its nature. The train takes off, and Belle is pitched into a child’s worst nightmare: a series of orphanages and foster homes. Lady Lila Harrington Eden is John's charmingly free-spirited wife, whose suffering at John's behest is perhaps the most devastating of all. But when Belle is three, her stepbrother mistakenly puts her on a train bound for Los Angeles, then leaves to get her a treat. Plain, warmhearted Martha Drusso takes the downy haired infant she names Belle to raise as her own, along with another orphan in her care, a little boy named R.C. On Christmas Eve, 1930, in America’s dust bowl, a young woman delivers her baby alone.
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