Genealogy by Mae Wood

Release Date: 10.25.2018

Synopsis:

Inspired by real, hundred-year-old love letters.

My great-grandmother's name is bold across the cream envelope, now golden at the seams

with age. I can't remember the last time I’ve seen graceful, purposeful handwriting with a

fountain pen and not the hasty scrawl of ballpoint.

Alice Hirshhorn, Astoria Hotel, Seattle Washington.

“Letters to Great-grandma Alice,” I say with wonder, tracing my fingers over the faded

postmark and foreign stamps.

December 1915. Philippine Islands.

I turn the thick envelope in my palm, slide out the tightly folded pages, and unfold the thin

paper, taking care not to tear the letters that were important enough to keep for a century.

My dearest Alice

“Great-grandpa was in the Philippines?” I ask.

“Oh no. Not your great-grandfather,” answers Grammie, her eyes twinkling with her mother’s secrets. “Elliott.”

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At thirty-three and with her future unclear, Ali Waller finds her way home again. A box of long-forgotten love letters written to her great-grandmother holds the unlikely key to Ali finding her new path.

As she tracks down the letter writer and his descendants, Ali learns the magic of love, hope, and resilience.

Told by three characters, and across century and an ocean, Genealogy is an enchanting story

about love and loss, taking chances, and embracing the surprises that life brings.

Review:

Genealogy was an interesting and intriguing book,slightely different from what I usually read.

I have to be honest it was a slow read for me at the beginning but after a few chapters I changed my mind and I was hooked.

Mae Wood did an amazing work,perfectly interwining past and present.

The characters were portrayed so well I could easily understand their feelings, their actions and their choices,even if they lived so many years before my birth.

I have enoyed this journey, the curiousity of the research of a family roots and the discovery of a past we never imagined.

I won't be accurate about the plot because I don't want to rob you of this experience.

This book will stay with you long after you've finished it.I recommend to get it as soon as possible.