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Marian trim herself faraway from her wealthy, conventional Irish Catholic family when she volunteered through the Spanish Civil Warfare - an experience she has always maintained to herself. Now in her 90s, she shares her Rhode Island cottage with her granddaughter Amelia, a girl of good heart but only a vague idea of life's purpose. Their daily life is intertwined with Marian's secret former: the blow to her younger idealism when she witnessed the brutalities on both sides of Franco's battle and the relationship that kept her trapped in Spain in perilous circumstances for nearly a decade. When Marian is diagnosed with cancer tumor, she finally speaks about what happened to her during those years - personal and honest challenges nearly unthinkable to Amelia's millennial technology as well as the unexpected gifts of true love and true camaraderie. Marian's report compels Amelia to make her own trip to Spain, to reconcile her grandmother's former with her own uncertain future. With the exquisite female connection at its main, this book, which explores how identity is forged in a particular moment in history and passed on through the years, is especially relevant in our own time. It really is a call to arms - a call to speak genuinely about evil when it's before us also to speak similarly about goodness.
