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"'It is often in the space between things we think are irreconcilably different that the most interesting connections are made. That space is where poems live.' Orly a young child, and our heroine lives through the earliest scenes of Hitler's bewildering regime as it tore apart her family home, the place she is growing into a person living inside a community unit she knows and depends on with its love, a love which propels her to survive into a new world. It is then that she's told by her parents that from their immediate family only the three of them will be leaving Vienna for a safe place in the Bolivian mountains. The rugged rural city life made available through a world organization teamed with the Bolivian President looking for farm workers gives them to their new home and life. Living high in the mountains, they sustain their new living under the sadness of leaving the rest of the core family behind struggling hopefully to freedom and their new threshold. The pressure is real and makes and breaks each family member in away they had not expected. What they know for sure is they are a family, one of many young families swelling the limits of the city already made up others from halfway around the world. They are residents who have come to to work their lives from a state of hopelessness to at a minimum surviving a thin line over helplessness without experience. The community is not immune to the pain caused by terror on the other side of the world and what brings these people to their land. Orly's family lives on to make a new life with new ways amongst loving neighbors and family connections." - C. Lucas 4/4 stars. |
