Tumbling Stones
Carol Clark Roberts, the daughter of missionary parents, spent her early and teenage years in a China occupied by Japanese troops during a brutal civil war and a Communist takeover. Forced to flee, Carol's family returned to the United States, where Carol attended college, married, and started a family. For fifteen years she wrote and photographed original filmstrip stories for schools and churches. Later she turned to writing novels, mostly inspired by her life in China and the research it required. Her first published novel, For the Love of China, came out of this effort. For decades she has been a collector and polisher of rocks from California beaches, an inspiration for Tumbling Stones. She is the mother of eight and the grandmother of fourteen. Carol currently lives in Santa Cruz, California.