The Eulogist by Terry Gamble
In this novel, the author’s inspiration goes far beyond her ancestors’ founding of the Procter and Gamble company. She launches the fictional Givens family along the same immigration path as her family, and then sets them up for the same types of struggles the Gamble family faced as immigrants.
My discussion with Terry Gamble includes her fascination with multi-generational families, and what she learned about 19th Century events that “set the table for what we must deal with today.”