The Edge of Lost by Kristina McMorris
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.
ISBN 9780758281180, Paperback
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Book should be interesting. Question though: did a federal prison which opened in 1934, only three years before the story begins, have allowed civilians to live on the island?
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…What will happen to those delicious summer cherry tomatoes if Tommy “The Greenthumb” Capello ever gets released? Pass me the Cheez-itz!
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I am a big fan Kristina McMorris. I have not read this title, yet. Thank you for the opportunity!
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Would LOVE a copy of this book. My family went to Alcatraz a few years ago. It would be so neat to read a story and be able to envision where it takes place.
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