Description From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of An American Princess comes the true story of an unconventional family divided by war and prejudice during WWII.
When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different.
She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband.
He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves.
The child they have together, brow.