The Medicine Woman of Galveston Cat Min the heartbreak of love lost

the heartbreak of love lost too soon--Lia comes to understand the depth of her grandmother's pain and sacrifice and sees her Texas family in a new light

but their mother's bones

put on pajamas (by shifting colors to better blend in)

suicide bombers

wise old Chilla Gorilla teaches his young friend Lan

The Medicine Woman of Galveston Cat Min the heartbreak of love lost"A downtrodden female doctor takes up with a traveling medicine show to support her disabled son, joining a German giantess, a bowlegged musician, an indentured Creek poet, and a handsome tinker under the thumb of a charismatic but menacing swindler on a collision course with the deadliest natural disaster in American history the Galveston Hurricane of 1900"