The Edge of Lost, Kristina McMorris
The Edge of Lost, Kristina McMorris
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The Edge of Lost

Author: Kristina McMorris

Narrator: Charlie Thurston

Unabridged: 10 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/24/2015


Synopsis

On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through the darkness around Alcatraz. A prison guard's only daughter—one of the youngest civilians who lives on the island—has gone missing. Tending the warden's greenhouse, convicted bank robber Tommy Capello waits anxiously. Only he knows the truth about the little girl's whereabouts, and that both of their lives depend on the search's outcome.

Almost two decades earlier and thousands of miles away, a young boy named Shanley Keagan ekes out a living as an aspiring vaudevillian in Dublin pubs. Talented and shrewd, Shan dreams of shedding his dingy existence and finding his real father in America. The chance finally comes to cross the Atlantic, but when tragedy strikes, Shan must summon all his ingenuity to forge a new life in a volatile and foreign world.

Skillfully weaving these two stories, Kristina McMorris delivers a compelling novel that moves from Ireland to New York to San Francisco Bay. As her finely crafted characters discover the true nature of loyalty, sacrifice, and betrayal, they are forced to confront the lies we tell—and believe—in order to survive.

About Kristina McMorris

Kristina McMorris is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of Letters from Home and Bridge of Scarlet Leaves. She is the recipient of more than twenty national literary awards, as well as a nominee for the prestigious RITA Award. Kristina has also been named one of Portland's "40 Under 40" by the Business Journal. She lives with her husband and two sons in Oregon.


Reviews

This is a story of family and friendship , fate and second chances, spanning several decades and places beginning with Alcatraz, to Ireland to New York City and back to Alcatraz and Dublin. Maybe one of the reasons I was so attracted to the Capello family is that both sets of my grandparents were bo......more