June Cross chronicles her childhood as a mixed-race child, recounting the experiences she and her mother had living in New York, her mother's decision to send June to live with an African-American family, and the impact that decision had on June's life.

An award-winning journalist's voyage into her family history and her quest to face the storms she encounters there. In August Gale, Pulitzer Prize—winning journalist Barbara Walsh-who has interviewed killers, bad cops, and crooked politicians in the course of her career-faces the most challenging story of her lifetime: asking her father about his childhood pain. In the process, she takes us on two heartrending odysseys: one into a deadly Newfoundland...