Jigsaw

Uprooted, abandoned, abused, Genelle Alkis pieces together tbe people, places and experiences tbat bave shaped her life. Divorced, mother of two, trapped in a world of addiction, she's fighting for her life. She reaches hack deeply into her American past, fingering fragments of the racial, religious and cultural clashes which have made her life a battleground: the struggle between her Christian farm-girl mother and her Jewish city-bred father, her doomed love affair with a Chinese-American, her eventual abusive marriage to a Turkish radical . . . In Jigsaw she struggles to put her shattered life hack together, to retrace her steps and find the missing pieces of the puzzle, the answer to the questions -'Who? Why? When?'