"At almost seventy years old, Edward Di Gangi had never given much thought to the fact he was adopted but, as he finally begins to explore, he pieces together the life story of an extraordinary woman--his birth mother. Genevieve Knorowski left home at the age of seventeen in the midst of World War II to join an ice-skating company in Vancouver and went on to achieve fame as an ice show performer, skating in the United States, Central and South America, and across Europe. It is a decision Genevieve makes on Easter Sunday in a church on New York City's Upper West Side that will forever connect the life of a young woman pursuing her dreams with the life of a seventy-year-old man searching for answers to the lifelong questions of who we are. where we come from, and what family means"--Back cover