Generations of life, love, and death, swirling in the currents of history

"I wear a locket filled with my grandmother's bones."

So begins Avonelle's Gift.

Can a descendant reach back into her family's stories and recover relatives who have been lost, forgotten, rejected, or excluded? What can she discover and retrieve as she breaks through negative judgments about her family's past? Avonelle's Gift vividly captures the history of a family over four generations, beginning with the love affair of two teenagers in 1900. A pregnant girl...