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THE SEVEN OR EIGHT DEATHS OF STELLA FORTUNA
By: Juliet Grames
Ecco
May 2019
On Sale: May 7, 2019
Featuring: Stella Fortuna; Antonio; Tina
464 pages
ISBN: 0062862820
EAN: 9780062862822
Kindle: B07CL41GXH
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life
From Calabria to Connecticut: a sweeping family saga about sisterhood, secrets, Italian immigration, the American dream, and one woman's tenacious fight against her own fate For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stellaβs childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidentsβmoments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stellaβs own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted. In her rugged Italian village, Stella is considered an oddityβbeautiful and smart, insolent and cold. Stella uses her peculiar toughness to protect her slower, plainer baby sister Tina from lifeβs harshest realities. But she also provokes the ire of her father Antonio: a man who demands subservience from women and whose greatest gift to his family is his absence. When the Fortunas emigrate to America on the cusp of World War II, Stella and Tina must come of age side-by-side in a hostile new world with strict expectations for each of them. Soon Stella learns that her survival is worthless without the one thing her family will deny her at any cost: her independence. In present-day Connecticut, one family member tells this heartrending story, determined to understand the persisting rift between the now-elderly Stella and Tina. A richly told debut, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna is a tale of family transgressions as ancient and twisted as the olive branch that could heal them.
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