Ronald Vierling''s first novel in the Clementine trilogy,
Clementine Camille: Volume One: An American Romance, ends when
African-American Clementine Brown and Caucasian-American Tyler
Raymond''s twin daughters are six years old. Clementine Camille:
Volume Two: An American Memoir begins ten years later, when the
couple''s twin daughters, Josephine and Abigail, are fifteen, which
means Clementine and Tyler not only face issues that naturally
arise with raising teen-age daughters, they must also deal with
those issues that attend their daughters'' mixed racial heritage.
Thus, while An American Romance chronicles how Clementine and Tyler
became adults and parents as well as the story of the family and
friends who shaped them, the events that unfold in An American
Memoir test everything they have come to believe about love and
loss, about race and identity, about ambition and the sometimes
contradictory consequences of achievement.