By Melania G. Mazzucco
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In April 1903, Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, age 9, are despatched by way of their terrible households in southern Italy to make a lifestyles for themselves in the USA. Theirs is an unforgettable love tale, a riveting story of immigrant survival and desire that takes them from the crime-ridden tenements of Little Italy to the brutal rail yards of the Midwest, on paths that pass with the Black Hand, Caruso, and Chaplin. it's a tale that reaches throughout a long time, to the son of Vita, who may commute so far as Italy to discover his roots and the guy who might have been his father.
In Vita, the writer, Melania G. Mazzucco, additionally tells her personal tale of ways she discovered Diamante and Vita in previous images, records, send manifests, and the fading thoughts of her family, and from those fragments of the prior imagined this gripping epic fiction of her family's history.
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