The central character of this book is the author herself who came to the United States at the age of 18, primarily to find new cultural horizons, but also to better understand her dad's nostalgia for the United States he had known as a young Italian guest worker in the booming 1920's. Struck by love at first sight for a recent immigrant from Bosnia, her life, along with her dreams and beliefs, changes radically. What was intended to be a short trip and a sort of pilgrimage into her dad's past turned into a series of transitions, progressions and regressions, accompanied by ever evolving...