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Kensington
January 2015
On Sale: December 30, 2014
Featuring: Julia Parlatone
304 pages
ISBN: 0758275056
EAN: 9780758275059
Kindle: B00LEU4QW8
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Women's Fiction | Romance Contemporary
Rosanna Chiofalo's poignant, beautifully written new novel
evokes the stunning scenery of Sicily and the Aeolian
Islands and tells of mothers and daughters, love and
sacrifice--and the choices that resound across continents
and through generations. Julia Parlatone doesn't have much to remember her Italian
mother by. A grapevine that Sarina planted still
flourishes
in the backyard of Julia's childhood home in Astoria,
Queens. And there's a song, "Stella Mia," she recalls her
mother singing--my star, my star, you are the most
beautiful
star--until the day she left three-year-old Julia behind
and
returned to Italy for good. Now a happily married school teacher, Julia tries not to
dwell on a past she can't change or on a mother who chose
to
leave. But in an old trunk in the family basement, she
discovers items that belonged to her mother--a song book,
Tarot cards, a Sicilian folk costume--and a diary. Sarina
writes unflinchingly of her harsh childhood and of a
first,
passionate love affair;of blissful months spent living in
the enchanting coastal resort town of Taormina and the
unspoiled Aeolian Islands north of Sicily as well as the
reasons she came to New York. By the diary's end, Julia
knows she must track down her mother in Italy and piece
together the rest of the complex, bittersweet truth--a
journey that, for better or worse, will change her own
life
forever.
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