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All four of my grandparents, Fannie, George, Louie, and Maxine, were immigrants who left Greece for America a century ago to start a new life in a new land. Their DNA helped determine my biology and chemistry, even as their stories helped shape my heart and soul. Some of them, and their close relatives, survived World War I and the Russian Revolution, worked on the Panama Canal and built chapels, were scarred by World War II and the Greek Civil War, and fought to retrieve the body of a loved one from a foreign land. But most of them lived ordinary lives with extraordinary courage and perseverance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book retells the struggles and joys, false starts and happy endings of these four modern Greek heroes, placing each in a literary frame that weaves their stories together with those of such legendary heroes as Jason, Odysseus, and Antigone. 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