The Wild Impossibility
What does it mean when you’re living someone else’s memories? That’s what Kira Esposito asks herself in THE WILD IMPOSSIBILITY. A neonatal ICU nurse, Kira knows loss all too well—her father abandoned the family and her baby was stillborn. Then her mother dies unexpectedly, sparking disturbing dreams that don’t follow the rules—she’s not herself in them; she’s a girl she doesn’t know, from a distant time. When the dreams invade her waking hours, threatening her work performance and the fragile babies she cares for, Kira is terrified, then obsessed. Piecing together what she knows, she comes to believe they aren’t dreams at all—they’re memories, her grandmother Maddalena’s.
As Maddalena’s story unfurls, Kira is drawn in deeper, unearthing her grandmother’s 1945 love affair with a Japanese American boy. Leaving behind both home and husband, Kira follows Maddalena’s memories to the high desert, and to Manzanar, hoping to discover what she needs to know—the truth about her family and her own capacity for love.