I Can Almost See You
A scrap of paper. A stranger's kindness. A sister she never stopped talking to.
In 1910, fifteen year-old Rachel Josefina Augustsdotter leaves her small Swedish village with her parents and four siblings, bound for a new life in America. She never imagines she'll step off the ship alone, sent back across the Atlantic with her youngest sister Elle, when a doctor at Ellis Island turns them away. By the time the return voyage ends, Elle is buried at sea and Rachel is a fifteen year old orphan of circumstance with nothing but a stranger's handwritten address and an unshakable belief that God knows exactly where her family is.
What follows is the story of the family Rachel builds from nothing with a boardinghouse keeper and a brilliant, eccentric photographer who become the parents she needs when her own are lost to her and a reunion, years later, that she never stopped hoping for. Through immigration, war, widowhood, and a lifetime of rebuilding, Rachel's one constant is the sister she carries with her everywhere, in whispered conversations no one else can hear.
Told as Rachel's own handwritten memoir discovered decades later by the boy who once wrote her a letter just to have a friend, I CAN ALMOST SEE YOU is a tender, true to history story about the people who find us at exactly the right moment, and the ones we never really lose.
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