This book keeps you on your toes. The jumping from person perspective to earlier history and the modern era and how it all came around to be was very well thought out and I commend the author. Spiritually speaking, it demonstrates the racism of different immigrants and it all boils down to the same issues that we have today. Sin and the result of unrepentant sin visiting for generations even when we believe our sin has no repercussions. A lovely story that I will surely read again.