"From the outside, Vanya's childhood of riding horses with her father in the solitude of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and attending flamboyant operas with her mother in the city looked idyllic. But life for Vanya turned dark when ghosts from her father's service on a Pacific destroyer in World War II tore her family apart. Vanya coped the only way she knew how, by immersing herself in the beauty and solitude of the wilderness around her." -- provided by publisher
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