It’s 1967 in the country of South Korea. A four-year-old boy is terrified when he witnesses his mother’s apparent death.

The boy believes her death as final and certain truth. He believes that there is now no one to protect him, no one to love him; that he is all on his own. He is filled with a mindless terror and loneliness beyond comprehension, and he begins to cry and shake uncontrollably; a wailing, desperate cry of anguish and fear from a little boy who believes that his mother just died.

And that he is alone forever.

But this is not the end of the story; nor its beginning. The story begins in 1963 in a devastated South Korea, barely recovering from a brutal civil war, with a young, destitute peasant woman struggling to raise her illegitimate infant, the son of an American serviceman. She abuses alcohol to escape her pain, the abandonment by her son’s father, and the shame of her poverty-driven prostitution. One day, her infant son nearly dies from a stupid, horrific accident. Now not only fatherless, poor, and foreign, her son is crippled and disfigured—mother and son all the more ostracized and without a future.

In America, on the other side of the globe, a different young mother gives birth prematurely to a son, with tragic results, leaving her heart and her faith shattered—and questioning all her beliefs. Years later, she is still silently struggling with her pain and anger at her God—until she reads an appeal in a magazine for those who may have love enough to help save children who are without a future and without hope.
In the tragedies of two mothers from the opposite ends of the world is born a dream and a destiny.

Dreams of My Mothers is based on the true story of these two mothers' transcendent love for the same boy. It is a love that spans the globe, propels them and him on a riveting and unimaginable path of transformation and triumph. It is a story that will speak to everyone who reads it; a story that tells us that mere love alone is not enough. Transcendent love is exceptionally rare and requires a giving of one’s entire self, sacrifice beyond all boundaries, a faith beyond any knowledge, and most of all, a burning courage to dream beyond all hope.

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