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Here’s hoping that some streaming channel will make a mini-series of this book, provided the budget is big enough to do justice to the many interesting and colorful locales with appropriate production values conveying their historical periods � early 20th Century Constantinople/Istanbul, 1920s and early �30s Barcelona and later Havana, 1930/40’s New York. While there is much to like in this book, I don’t mean this entirely as a complement. The author makes a strong effort to recreate on the page the sights and sounds of these places, but for me only with mixed success. The characters too, even Rebecca, the central character for most of the book, come alive only inconsistently. As this is a family saga depicting the repeated need to leave one home for a newer and, it is hoped, safer one, it feels unfair to remark that the episodic quality of the story left me wanting more cohesiveness in the narrative. Just the same, it did.