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On a Monday morning at her office in San Francisco where she works for a start-up, Claire Hamilton hurriedly files a broken nail before her meeting. Her landline rings. It’s Social Services from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Assuming it’s a wrong number she answers expecting to get rid of the caller. But it’s not a wrong number. Case worker Roberta Thompson informs Claire that her sister and brother-in-law, Chiricahua Apaches, have been murdered. Their 6-year-old child, Blossom, is the lone survivor and is now not only an orphan, but she is in danger. Since Claire is Blossom’s niece, Roberta informs Claire she intends to bring Blossom to San Francisco the next morning to live under the protection of her “Aunt Claire” and her live-in boyfriend, Nelson Longstreet.
Claire tells Roberta as calmly as she can, this is all a terrible misunderstanding. Not only does she not have a sister, but she is also the only surviving child of her parents, Matthew and Elizabeth Hamilton, and there is absolutely no way her socialite Chicago mother could have had any connection to a Chiricahua Apache sister from New Mexico.
The truth unfolds. Claire learns that her mother, in 1973 attended the Pine Ridge Reservation protest and fell in love with a Chiricahua Apache named John Cooper. Elizabeth got pregnant and gave birth to Claire’s sister Rowena, who was raised by Cooper’s family on the reservation. John Cooper became a political prisoner and died in prison in 1978. To add insult to injury, Claire learns that her prim and proper mother, recently deceased, had been sending money to Rowena’s family over the years, and nobody knew. Not even her father.
Roberta shows up as promised the next morning at Claire and Nelson’s front door with 6-year-old Blossom Hunt. Claire recognizes Blossom has Elizabeth Hamilton’s eyes.
What follows is a rollicking adventure that plays out in the New Mexico desert joined by Gertrude, Rebecca and Richard with the Queens, and Bear as part of the entourage. Everyone along the way discovers parts of themselves they never knew about. The catalyst, it turns out, is Blossom with her ability to make the best peanut butter and jelly sandwiches anyone ever ate.
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On a Monday morning at her office in San Francisco where she works for a start-up, Claire Hamilton hurriedly files a broken nail before her meeting. Her landline rings. It’s Social Services from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Assuming it’s a wrong number she answers expecting to get rid of the caller. But it’s not a wrong number. Case worker Roberta Thompson informs Claire that her sister and brother-in-law, Chiricahua Apaches, have been murdered. Their 6-year-old child, Blossom, is the lone survivor and is now not only an orphan, but she is in danger. Since Claire is Blossom’s niece, Roberta informs Claire she intends to bring Blossom to San Francisco the next morning to live under the protection of her “Aunt Claire” and her live-in boyfriend, Nelson Longstreet.
Claire tells Roberta as calmly as she can, this is all a terrible misunderstanding. Not only does she not have a sister, but she is also the only surviving child of her parents, Matthew and Elizabeth Hamilton, and there is absolutely no way her socialite Chicago mother could have had any connection to a Chiricahua Apache sister from New Mexico.
The truth unfolds. Claire learns that her mother, in 1973 attended the Pine Ridge Reservation protest and fell in love with a Chiricahua Apache named John Cooper. Elizabeth got pregnant and gave birth to Claire’s sister Rowena, who was raised by Cooper’s family on the reservation. John Cooper became a political prisoner and died in prison in 1978. To add insult to injury, Claire learns that her prim and proper mother, recently deceased, had been sending money to Rowena’s family over the years, and nobody knew. Not even her father.
Roberta shows up as promised the next morning at Claire and Nelson’s front door with 6-year-old Blossom Hunt. Claire recognizes Blossom has Elizabeth Hamilton’s eyes.
What follows is a rollicking adventure that plays out in the New Mexico desert joined by Gertrude, Rebecca and Richard with the Queens, and Bear as part of the entourage. Everyone along the way discovers parts of themselves they never knew about. The catalyst, it turns out, is Blossom with her ability to make the best peanut butter and jelly sandwiches anyone ever ate.
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