Geo O’Connor is honored in celebration of the publication of her new novel The Girl from Over There. The novel is inspired by Geo O’Connor’s extraordinary life as an immigrant from Noumea, the capital of New Caledonia, a small French island in the South Pacific, to a successful real estate/investor in the burgeoning days of Los Angeles’ historic Wilshire Corridor?more about the book: The Girl From Over There, is a novel about a young girl who enconters American GIs during World War II and is so impressed with them she eventually emigrates to the United States in the 1960s and becomes a success in the growing city of Los Angeles. Yvete enters the rough and tumble game of real estate during the big growth decades of the 1970s and 1980s and lives the American dream.