In 1934 Grace photographed her favorite statue, a national monument named Serenity: The Statue of Friendship.
Throughout the decades Serenity s destruction, caused by vandals, parallels the destruction in Grace s family because she died leaving behind five young children. Destruction in the family comes just as it comes to many families struggling to make everything right in a world full of mistrust, selfishness and defiance. Social injustice weighs heavily upon Henry, the widower and Derek, his divorced son.
Derek, the main character, is introduced in the beginning of the story and...