An Italian wife
In turn-of-the-century Italy, fourteen-year-old Josephine, sheltered and naïve, is forced into an arranged marriage to a man she doesn't know or love who is about to depart for America, where she later joins him. Bound by tradition, Josephine gives birth to seven children. The last, Valentina, is conceived in passion, born in secret, and given up for adoption. Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for her lost child, keeping her secret even as her other children go off to war, get married, and make their own mistakes
Print Book, English, 2014
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W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2014
Domestic fiction
286 pages ; 22 cm
9780393241662, 0393241661
882229391
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The summer of ice
War stories
Coney Island dreams
Moonlight in Vermont
Dear Mussolini
Waiting for Churchill
La vigilia
Husbands
Crooning with Dino
Captain Macaroni
The boy on the bus
The importance of similes
America