"To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past."

"Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution. Every lock has its key."

But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums

"Faced with a decision about what to tell her, and how to tell her, I bottled. Trust is like that. Once you lose it you begin to adjust your attitudes toward people, you put up guards, and filter the information you want them to know." -Rachel

Very surprising that this book is based on true events. Always shocked at some of the idiotic things that happened in history that someone thought was a good idea, in this case forcing sterilization on poor families and lying to them about it. Very good story telling and character development.

Thought-provoking read. Enjoyed the story within the story, told back and forth between the present day life of the author and excerpts of the book the author has written about the artist. The visual descriptions have inspired me to someday seek out St. James Court fountain.