A Gypsy girl, Angelica Grastende, lives an idyllic childhood within her Rom klan in the Europe of 1913. Abruptly, this all changes with the onset of ‘The Great War’, when the persecution of the Gypsies becomes increasingly more violent, and a great misfortune occurs to the klan with a terrible reprisal.
Angelica and her family are forced on an odyssey, which takes them over the Atlantic Ocean and eventually across the America of the 1920’s. Born to entertain, all find jobs in a small family circus, and small, daring Angelica becomes a celebrity flying on the trapeze.
The Gypsy’s Song is a historical novel, a rite of passage, and a grand adventure all rolled into one book. It is an exploration of what can happen when one is forced to abandon one’s life, and perhaps one’s own soul.
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