The seven or eight deaths of Stella Fortuna : a novel / Juliet Grames.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062911636 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 674 pages (large print) : genealogical table ; 23 cm.
- Edition: First HarperLuxe edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Families > Italy > Fiction. Italian Americans > Fiction. Immigrants > Fiction. Sisters > Fiction. Large type books. Historical fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 4 of 4 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Houston Public Library | F GRA (Text) | 35150001729633 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Nelson Public Library | LP F GRA (Text) | 3514830031080 | Large Print | Volume hold | Available | - |
Sechelt Public Library | LP F GRAM (Text) | 33260100032482 | Large Print | Volume hold | Available | - |
Williams Lake Branch | GRA (Text) | 33923006113793 | Large Print | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Believed cursed in her rugged Italian village, a tough, intelligent teen protects her younger sister when the family emigrates to America just before World War II, enduring challenges that transform her views about survival and independence. - HARPERCOLL
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. Stellaâs childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidentsâmoments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stellaâs own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted.
In her rugged Italian village, Stella is considered an oddityâbeautiful and smart, insolent and cold. Stella uses her peculiar toughness to protect her slower, plainer baby sister Tina from lifeâs 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.
âWitty and deeply felt.â âEntertainment Weekly (New and Notable)
âThe Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna achieves what no sweeping history lesson about American immigrants could: It brings to life a woman that time and history would have ignored.â âWashington Post
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