Day of the Dragonfly

Day of the Dragonfly is an epic story of the struggle against poverty. Beginning in rural Brazil during the Great Depression this Odyssey ends in 1975 on a broken-down chaise longue in front of a trailer in Miami. Two of the three "e;books"e; that make up the novel involve heroic journeys – a twelve-year-old girl seeking safety, a fourteen-year-old boy searching for land free from drought. They ar...