***NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER***
“Will grab your heart on page one and won’t let go until the end.”
–Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants
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. … 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.
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There were parts of it that were very predictable, and other parts where a curve ball was thrown. I enjoyed it very much.
I enjoyed learning about Alcatraz and the staff and family who lived on the island but found the book a bit slow at times.
It just wasn’t much of a story. I struggled to finish it.
This book was fun to read, but a disappointment in that is was just not credible. The beginning was great, interesting plot, great characters, realistic. After the hero reached adulthood however, all of the things that happened to him just seemed over the top. Disappointing.
I liked this book, not loved it. The story was more interesting in the beginning than the end. The ending seemed unrealistic.