49 Parkwood Avenue is the second book in the series of a Toronto, Canada, immigrant family saga. By 2008, the multi-generational members of this growing family still find themselves mired in the ups and downs of life in a complicated, diverse family structure. The central character, Nigella Hansson, is introduced to the reader as a baby born in 1975 to a single parent, who was a profoundly deaf woman who grew up in a Swedish orphanage. Armed with the experience of being brought up on welfare and many meals that came from the back door of restaurants at closing time, our protagonist earns a scholarship and graduates with a law degree. She finds her birth father at the age of thirty and embarks on a new life with a five-year-old daughter in tow. She turns her back on her law degree and decides to grab all life has to offer on her own terms, come hell or high water. Learn more at sandrabenns.com

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