An epic chronicle of the refugee experience, Beautiful Words weaves together three very different stories of survival, told through the eyes of three children in different times and places. The outcome is heart-rending, humorous, and surprising by turns.

Diablo was an intelligent, sensitive child but fate orphaned him into a violent, loveless home life. Fatherless and raised by a mother who thrived on his humiliation and pain, Diablo grew into a wildly wicked sociopath. Being clever and cold, he lived up to his namesake, destroying hearts and hope with every path he crossed until he earned himself a ten year stint in Georgia's harsh, backward penitentiary. Shady, his first true love, is back in his life but for how long? Her desire to seduce every man has Diablo second guessing there reborn relationship. Meanwhile, his daughter's mother,...