fiction

Second Chances and Generational Healing Author: Sandra Byrd Whidbey Island, 1950s. Helen Devries is recently widowed. She grieves her Navy husband, who died in an unlikely training accident, and the fact that her deepest dream, to have his child, has now faded into an impossibility. Everyday, she goes to the Navy hospital, tends wounds, works with soldiers, and hides her grief, until one day she receives an unlikely phone call. Choi Eunhee is a widow in a strange country, discriminated against, alone, frightened. She reaches out to Helen and together the two women thwart expectation and find healing, peace, second chances, [...]