Between the Bookends: Who lives? Who dies? Who tells the story?

Two moments bookend Nicole Kamaleson's life. The first: a twenty-year family secret finally revealed that the parents who raised her had known the truth of her origins all along, a truth spoken on a picnic table when she was nineteen. The second: a truck bomb by the Taliban in Kabul that took her husband Mano while doing the microfinance work he believed he was born to do. And between them, a life in all its fullness. One only God could have designed.

It's a love story, a grief story, and an identity story. Spanning four continents, an intercultural marriage, and the kind of loss that makes you ask: who am I now, and where do I belong?

A story her ninety-six-year-old mother reluctantly gave her blessing to tell. And one her three sons cautiously gave theirs to share.

Who lives? Who dies? Who tells the story? After many years pondering these questions, this is her story and now is the time to tell it.