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A new historical novel from Pamela Schoenewaldt, the USA Today bestselling author of When We Were Strangers. Italy, 1905. Fourteen-year-old Lucia and her young mother, Teresa, are servants in a magnificent villa on the Bay of Naples, where Teresa soothes their unhappy mistress with song. But volatile tempers force them to flee, exchanging their warm, gilded cage for the cold winds off Lake Erie and Cleveland's restless immigrant quarters. With a voice as soaring and varied as her moods, Teresa transforms herself into the Naples Nightingale on the vaudeville circuit. Clever and hardworking, Lucia blossoms in school until her mother's demons return, fracturing Lucia's dreams.Yet Lucia is not alone in her struggle for a better life. All around her, friends and neighbors, new Americans, are demanding decent wages and working conditions.
About the Author
Pamela Schoenewaldt's first historical novel of immigration, USAToday Bestseller, When We Were Strangers (2011) , was a Barnes & Noble Great Discovery. Her second, Swimming in the Moon, was short-listed for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction. Under the Same Blue Sky (May 2015) tells of a young woman whose mysterious healing powers confront the devastation of World War I. Pamela lived for ten years outside Naples, Italy, an experience which inspired her first two novels. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with her husband, Maurizio Conti, a physicist and Jesse, their philosopher-dog.
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