Above The Strand Percival Everett Jinwoo Sung

Jinwoo Sung

wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path

Everything with him is wild and impulsive

She stopped believing in a lot of things after her mom left without a trace when she was only thirteen

And when Gareth finds himself threatened from every side

Above The Strand Percival Everett Jinwoo SungGalveston, Texas. Late nineteenth century. A city built on confidence and surrounded by water. At the height of its power, Galveston believes itself untouchable. Its wharves pulse with global trade, its brick warehouses and counting houses rise with quiet authority, and above the docks out of sight and unrecorded decisions are made that determine who prospers, who waits, and who is erased from the ledger. Elmina Cross moves easily through these unseen