Pamela Coumas is a neophyte narrator fulfilling a lifelong dream of two people to chronicle an unlikely love affair that began in the seaside town of Kalamata, Greece to the shores of America, and back again. Educated in the school of life, earning a master’s degree in agape with a minor in optimism, her greatest accomplishment is found in the pages of this book. The story narrates wartime horrors, peacetime inspiration, and adolescent ambitions to raising a family, empty nesting, coping with a spouse’s dementia, and loving of the divine kind.

Pamela’s life is an extraordinary story of an ordinary woman whose journeys traveled rough waters, calm seas, and a whirlwind of uncommon experiences. The Garden God Gave Me is a tale of innocence, hope, devotion, perseverance, and above all, faith in God’s will. The book is dedicated to Takis B. Coumas, her late husband, with whom she dreamt of writing their love story together someday. She wrote it together with her daughter, Angela C. DiVito, in his honor instead, and for the Glory of God.