"Growing up in Connecticut with their adoptive mother Jackie, twins Drita and Petrit (aka Pete) had no connection to their Albanian heritage and knew nothing about where they came from. . . . The twins were as close as could be. But in their teenage years, their paths diverged: Drita was a good girl with good grades and good manners who was going to go to a good college; Pete was a bad boy who had a baby with an addict and was going nowhere fast. . . . Fast forward to their twenties: Jackie has suffered a stroke, and Drita has abandoned her graduate study at Columbia University to move home and take care of her mother, giving up all her dreams for the future in the name of family obligation. She hasn't heard from Pete in three years. Then Pete's girlfriend Shanda and their son show up unexpectedly without him, and Drita discovers that he's fallen in with a guerrilla group of Albanian immigrants in the Bronx supplying the war in Kosovo with weapons and fighters"--
