Annie Dawid's stories chronicle a Jewish family's life across generations, countries, and continents. These stories re-imagine the ones told to her by paternal relations at home and abroad.

Imagine a community full of rainbow families where everyone comes together in the spirit of equality and fraternal love. Shy pastor's daughter Marceline and her new husband Jim Jones found Peoples Temple in the face of rampant hostility and aggression in 1950s segregated AmeriKKKa. They give hope to the poor, the miserable, the alienated and disenfranchised of all colors, and build a commune in the jungle of British Guyana. But this Eden too has its...

The daughter of a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany and an American mother prone to suicidal depression, Annie Dawid, traces the history of her life beneath the Sangre de Cristo mountains of Colorado.