![]() ![]() ![]() The nuns of San Nicola are not the same as a mother, but they provide a safe, trustworthy home for the boys. She is a warm-hearted writer with an optimistic and generous view of fortune and mankind, and this novel, based in part on stories told by Trigiani’s grandmother about how she came to America and made her way, is from the start a love story that involves many kinds of love. But Adriana Trigiani is not in the business of creating worlds filled with misery and people you don’t want to know. When a novel begins with a distraught widow leaving her small sons at a convent, promising to return but instead disappearing without explanation for decades, you could reasonably assume there are grim times ahead for young Ciro Lazzari and his older brother Eduardo. ![]()
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