The Seventy-Seven Year Good Deed: A True Story of Legacy and Continuance

This is a true story. It opens in the present with the discovery of some letters in a trunk in the basement of a house that is about to be demolished. The letters involve a ''good deed'' that took place in China in the 1930s. The narrative moves to the discovery of a ''ghost ship'' during the Second World War and describes how a woman from Shanghai, in contemporary America, brings this good deed to a full circle, only to sacrifice herself and her children to a kind of tragic oblivion.