Southern Italian Heritage
Discover the soul of Southern Italy through this curated book list. Explore heritage, tradition, and resilience with Adriana Trigiani's *Lucia, Lucia*, *Cry to Heaven*, and the timeless classic *Christ Stopped at Eboli*—essential fiction and memoirs for lovers of Italian culture and history.
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Lucia, Lucia
by Adriana Trigiani
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This heartwarming tale is full of lessons about taking risks in life and love.”—Cosmopolitan “Funny, visual, and moving . . . A vibrant, loving, wistful portrait of a lost time and place.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City, and Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is rife with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at chic B. Altman department store on Fifth Avenue. Engaged to her childhood sweetheart, the steadfast Dante DeMartino, Lucia is torn when she meets a handsome stranger who promises a life of uptown luxury that career girls like her only read about in the society pages. Forced to choose between duty to her family and her own dreams, Lucia finds herself in the midst of a sizzling scandal in which secrets are revealed, her beloved career is jeopardized, and the Sartoris’ honor is tested.
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Ellis Island Interviews (Immigrants Tell Their Stories In Their Own Words)
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