California, 1877
Catherine Bourchier flees her family’s ruined vineyards and an abusive husband in France to risk everything on a single harvest in far off America. With her brattish son, Emile, and a drunken old family retainer, she buys a young vineyard in Napa Valley, California.
In the smouldering powder keg of San Francisco, Chi-en Shambles, half-white, half-Chinese, is exiled from Chinatown by his own community. With his extraordinary gift for languages and natural decency, can he win acceptance, and even love, in a society measuring a man by dollars, ignorance and prejudice?
An unlikely alliance between two damaged outcasts offers a final chance in the ‘New Eden’ of Napa. But the past and its ghosts are never truly dead. And the dust of the earth never settles. Sometimes both come knocking at your door.
Genre: Historical
Catherine Bourchier flees her family’s ruined vineyards and an abusive husband in France to risk everything on a single harvest in far off America. With her brattish son, Emile, and a drunken old family retainer, she buys a young vineyard in Napa Valley, California.
In the smouldering powder keg of San Francisco, Chi-en Shambles, half-white, half-Chinese, is exiled from Chinatown by his own community. With his extraordinary gift for languages and natural decency, can he win acceptance, and even love, in a society measuring a man by dollars, ignorance and prejudice?
An unlikely alliance between two damaged outcasts offers a final chance in the ‘New Eden’ of Napa. But the past and its ghosts are never truly dead. And the dust of the earth never settles. Sometimes both come knocking at your door.
Genre: Historical
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