Dr Roger Herst: Destiny's Children January 28, 2011

Carefully crafted and well-researched 'Destiny's Children' illustrates a saga of post-Civil War California. The novel plays out over a large canvas and is based on the actual pioneers whose super human struggles forged the modern west. 'Destiny's Children' artfully presents California in the 1870s and the extraordinary challenges of building the western half of the transcontinental railroad on a very personal level. The vital contributions of Chinese immigrants at this key moment in California's history are a central theme of the book.