"More than thirty years ago, a mother laid her newborn baby in a shoebox and left it in the backyard of an Italian restaurant. Now the baby, Rebecca, is a mother herself. A child of no one, and nowhere, she has created her own unorthodox but tender family." Then this hopeful life is dealt a blow that could shatter the strongest of ties. In the end, only finding a history to call her own will give Rebecca a future. Like a Russian doll, this novel opens to reveal a brilliant richness of stories locked within.