Linda Ulleseit crea ficción histórica centrada en las experiencias de mujeres resilientes que influyeron significativamente en el cambio social. Sus narrativas se adentran en el siglo XIX y en el Hawái territorial, explorando los desafíos y triunfos enfrentados por estas figuras femeninas fuertes. Ulleseit da vida a estos momentos cruciales de la configuración de los derechos y la vida de las mujeres para el lector. Su obra ofrece una mirada cautivadora al impacto duradero de las mujeres en la historia.
Three women have reason to be in Fort Snelling in 1835. All three are wildly different from one another, but they have one thing in common: the world is changing faster than they can cope. As their cultures collide, each woman must find a way to direct her own future and leave a legacy for her children.
Married at sixteen and the mother of two by nineteen, Dolores's quest to find the aloha spirit within herself-and to escape the abuse of her alcoholic husband-leads her to flee Hawaii after the bombing of Pearl Harbor for California, where she seeks to make a new life for herself. But her past isn't so easily left behind.