Defy the Winds

Mary Foca has taken the love triangle in Dante's DIVINE COMEDY, changed the locale and the times, and let her characters react to the environment, the initial situation, and the characteristics she created for them. Two unhappy couples leave their old country and passionately meet head on the challenges of their relationship to each other, their own personal expectations and ideologies, and the influence of people of diverse cultures. The winds of destiny blow them into turbulent economic times and gather momentum, twisting and turning their lives until they finally come full circle in an unexpected and ironic twist. The fulfillment of the American Dream was not the same for each person, and the book examines with pathos and sometimes with humor how each person's strengths and weaknesses are revealed as they struggle with the winds of destiny, their own strengths and weaknesses, and their own passions and desires to fulfill their dreams. The characters will remain memorable.