In one month of one summer...learning the stories that have determined your secret life, your greatest hopes, your worst fears. An ancient map of the stars holds the key, carried by a drifter who asks a widow and her adopted son for asylum. From the streets of Shanghai to the plains of Texas, a cast of characters fighting over land and identity must sift through the cracks between myth and truth, revealing relationships and plots hidden for most of a century.
"Bob Brown has crafted a remarkable story and filled it with a cast of vivid and memorable characters...Stars Came Tumbling will remain with the reader long after the last page, and the author's storytelling skills shine throughout. – Marc H. Abrams, author of 'Sioux War Dispatches' and 'St. George Stanley's Sioux War Narrative'
