The Other Shore is the closing volume of Maristella Lorch’s trilogy Beyond Gibraltar, the story of generations of strong women covering more than a century, including two World Wars, the Cold War, and the explosion of terrorism. Interweaving memory and history, the personal and the global, The Other Shore, that begins with the death of Lorch’s second husband and the flashback to their torrid love affair on the Columbia campus in the early 50’s, focuses on the space of the imagination and the drive to build a family, not only a genetic one but an intellectual and creative one that defies time and geography. 

PART I—A LOVE STORY

1. Our Ending,
2. Our Beginning,
3. Caught in a Net,
4. Lavinium Lavinio Lavinia,
5. The Blessings born of Courage.

PART II—SETTING OUR ROOTS ON AMERICAN SOIL

1. First Steps Forward,
2.  A House in the Wilderness, 
3. The Rite Of Christmas,
4.  Bridging Language and Culture.

PART III—SPREADING OUT INTO THE WORLD

1. The Early Stages,
2. Donatella’s Marriage: to Settle Down or to Wander?,
3. Memories in Flight,
4. Beautiful Africa.

PART IV—LETTERS TO THE FAMILY

1. Musings on the Winter Solstice,
2. Beautiful Barbuda—my Little Africa and its African Roots.

PART V—A CHRISTMAS TREE IN AFRICA 1994

1. Settling in In the Camp, 
2. The Meaning of Christmas.