| <,p>,From Jamie Ford, the<,i>,New York Times<,/i>, bestselling author of<,i>,Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet<,/i>,, comes his much-anticipated second novel.<,/p>,<,p.Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle,<,i>,Songs of Willow Frost<,/i>, is a powerful tale of two soulsa boy with dreams for his future and a woman escaping her haunted pastboth seeking love, hope, and forgiveness.<,/p>,<,p&g ,William Eng, a Chinese American boy, has lived at Seattles Sacred Heart Orphanage for five long years. On his birthdayor rather, the day the nuns designate as his birthdayWilliam and the other children are taken to see a movie and he glimpses an actress on the silver screen who goes by the name of Willow Frost. William is convinced that the movie star is his mother. When William sets out to find Willow he discovers that her story is far more complicated than any Hollywood fantasy.<,/p>, |
