Across three generations, three wars, two continents, and the mythic waters of the Mediterranean, one family's history leads to an inevitable question: What price do our descendants pay for the choices that we make? Na ma knows Algeria only by the artifacts she encounters in her grandparents' tiny apartment in Normandy: the language her grandmother speaks but Na ma can't understand, the food her grandmother cooks, and the precious things her grandmother carried when they fled. Na ma's father claims to remember nothing; he has made himself French. Her grandfather died before he could tell her his side of the story. But now Na ma will travel to Algeria to see for herself what was left behind--including their secrets. The Algerian War for Independence sent Na ma's grandfather on a journey of his own, from wealthy olive grove owner and respected veteran of the First World War, to refugee spurned as a harki by his fellow Algerians in the transit camps of southern France, to immigrant