For a perspective on the relativity of loss and good fortune, we recommend reading Good Fortune Daughters as a trilogy, along with the books From a World Apart and A Child in Prison Camp. Three real women—Huguette, Francine and Shichan—tell their girlhood stories, all lived during the same turbulent times, each facing hardship and loss, although under very different circumstances. Beneath the Catholic, Jewish and Buddhist influences, beyond their Canadian, French and Japanese ethnicity, they are but three beautiful, innocent little girls.
At the time, Huguette, Francine and Shichan had little control over their personal situations and even less power to stop greed and hatred from turning the world into a violent quagmire. But little girls have more power than most realize. And they all grow up with the potential to become powerful women. It has everything to do with how they survive loss and choose to share their good fortune. Even though these three extraordinary women have never met, together their stories just might change your life forever and the lives of girls who need your help now.
- From a World Apart, Copyright © 2000 University of Nebraska Press. All Rights Reserved.
- A Child in Prison Camp, Copyright © 1971 Shizuye Takashima published by Tundra Books. All Rights Reserved.
How We Can Help
A percentage of the royalties earned from Good Fortune Daughters will be donated to WomenForWomen.org. This organization works to empower women and their children who face war, violence, discrimination, poverty and other threats to their fulfillment and well-being. And at the end of Good Fortune Daughters, there is a section with some ideas for how you can reach out to help others. When you are 80 years old looking back, you don’t have to say, “I never knew.” Instead, you can feel fulfilled and say, “Look what we have done.”
Family Education Fund
Another percentage of book royalties will be placed in an educational fund for the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the seven Lafortune sisters so we may continue our strong family legacy of tolerance and creativity.
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