Zo�: Are we the masters of our own fate? Zo� searches for the answer.

Since ancient times, philosophers have taught that a power outside of our control determines the course of our lives. Zoe, the heroine of this story, rejects this premise even though she spent her early childhood in abusive child care facilities and later grieved the deaths of cherished family members.

Zoe is the story of the life of Zoe (nee Genevieve) Stamos Angelos, a first-generation American woman of Greek-Irish heritage. The main setting is Chicago, Illinois, in the years 1906-2000. Th...