The forward momentum of the twentieth century propels Mis(s)Fortune from a vaudeville dance hall to a Hollywood studio, from a London polio ward to a hogan in the high desert mountains, in this multi-generational saga of courage, determination, humor and hard-won wisdom. Genevieve DuMont, raising her child alone after her pilot husband is shot down over Germany in 1917, finds her predictable life upended on a train bound for New Orleans. Catherine Von Eller, a bride trapped in Europe by the second World War, bequeaths her strength and character to her only son. Dan Walker befriends a young...