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From the streets of Shanghai to the plains of Texas, a cast of characters fighting over land and identity must sift through the cracks between myth and truth, revealing relationships and plots hidden for most of a century.   The key is in a strange, century-old map of the stars carried by a drifter traveling with a young bison named Bill who is more than he appears to be. In this fusion of legend and history, a narrator recalling his 12th birthday chronicles what followed the drifter’s appearance—a series of events from opposite ends of the earth that evolved in extraordinary ways to shape his coming of age. They involve the mother he imagines as a Chinese princess—a widow struggling to protect her secrets; her powerful nemesis; an itinerant artist; an imposter priest; a beautiful woman wagered as the prize in a poker contest; a legendary eccentric with a reputation for killing and stuffing her victims; and a beer-guzzling bison whose racing prowess endangers his life, as he and the boy escape together on a final, desperate journey across the plains. www.starscametumbling.com "The novel is wonderful -- beautifully written, partly mystical and equally down to earth, full of characters who certainly existed at some place in our combined psyches and lives. And oh, how I would love to have known Bill."— Lynn Sherr, Author,' Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space'; 'Swim: Why We Love the Water'; 'Tall Blondes: A Book About Giraffes' "Bob Brown has crafted a remarkable story and filled it with a cast of vivid and memorable characters...'Stars Came Tumbling' will remain with the reader long after the last page, and the author's storytelling skills shine throughout." – Marc H. Abrams, author of 'Sioux War Dispatche's and 'St. George Stanley’s Sioux War Narrative'