America - novel

She stood on her pale face and whiteness as she saw the stone lady extend the stone torch towards her and emerge from the fog covering the sea. I heard a voice saying this is the Statue of Liberty, and there behind the strange fog, do you see the buildings, skyscrapers, this is New York City, look at the tall houses! Marta Haddad travels, a poor and beautiful young woman, from Mount Lebanon to New York in 1913 searching for her husband. After many years, we see her in Pasadena-California, wealthy and surrounded by sons, daughters, and grandchildren. Through characters and stories, the novel takes us to America, to the "Arab Front," and to Siberia. The Great War, then the forgotten influenza pandemic, then the golden years, then the global economic crisis (1929), then more good years, then a second world war... Marta lives through all of this, and so do the readers.