The Secret is in a Map of the Stars…
In one month of one summer—learning the stories that have determined your secret life, your greatest hopes, your worst fears. An ancient map of the stars holds the key, carried by a drifter who asks a widow and her adopted son for asylum. Together, they sift through the cracks between myth and truth to uncover the boy’s hidden identity.
Robert Brown, Author
Former ABC News Correspondent Bob Brown spent 50 years in broadcasting, 33 at ABC and the magazine show ’20/20′ with Barbara Walters and Hugh Downs. He is the recipient of six Emmy Awards, an Alfred I. DuPont Award, National Headliner and Investigative Reporter awards, and a Bronze Wrangler award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame for Television Documentary Writing. Films inspired by his stories include the children’s classic “Fly Away Home;” the Emmy winning “Door-to-Door;” and “The Pursuit of Happyness.” Before his network career, as a reporter for WFAA-TV in Dallas, he produced stories on the origins of Texas legends, many of which are woven into the plot of “Stars Came Tumbling.”
Chapter One:
Sometimes Babe awoke in the middle of the night, not so much with a scream as with a cry of shock, so I gave her the benefit of the doubt when it came to her eccentricities. In my imagination, Babe was a princess without portfolio, exiled to the strange, high domain where we lived…. And although I was not of her blood, she had chosen me as an heir and would tell me why when the time was right. That was what I liked to imagine. Most of the time, I worried that I was expendable.
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