Anew: The Scattered Seeds Series

PUBLISHED 3 AUGUST 2013, ANEW is the first book in the author's new collection, THE SCATTERED SEEDS, Tales from the “Great Melting Pot” of the world, America. Based upon the author's debut novel, SHATTERED SEEDS:"SOFIA'S STORY" and rewritten for placement in this new collection, it is a stand alone novel and not sequential. It is literary historical fiction set in the 20th Century in Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and Saigon.

Two women meet - one young and one old. Sophie Simon and Janene McDeenon are both writers who were born during different times during the tumultuous 20th Century. Wars at different times caused them to become America's newest immigrants. They are strangers on the surface but their meeting produces a bond between them that transcends time and the distance of three continents. In 1972, Janene came to America as the orphaned daughter of a Vietnamese woman and an African American soldier. A loving American couple adopted her and raised her in Atlanta. At thirty-something, she wants to find her roots. However, Sophie, an old German woman in ill health, wants to bury hers. Born in 1918 to a poor baker in Berlin, she ran away from her evil Nazi husband and started ANEW in America. It proved to be a flight that shattered her life taking away all those she loved. Disguised as a French refugee, her treasonous uncle helped her escape to America where she began a new life.

It is a tale of love, family, and patriotism. Although it is fiction, some readers say that it reads as a true story. The book is appropriate for young adult readers and adult readers of all ages.

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