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Read by Cassandra CampbellFrom the bestselling author of The Obituary Writer comes the stirring multigenerational story of an Italian family Poignant sensual and deeply felt An Italian Wife is a sweeping and evocative portrait of a family bound by love and heartbreakAn Italian Wife opens in turnofthecentury Italy when young Josephine Rimaldi is forced to follow her new husband to America in an arranged marriage and finds herself in a strange country with a man she doesnt know or loveBound by tradition she gives birth to seven children the last conceived in a passionate affair Josephine must give up for adoption Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for this child keeping her secret even as her other children whose stories unfold in surprising ways go off to war get married and make their own mistakes Her son suffers in World War I Her daughter struggles to assimilate in the new world of the s American suburbs And her granddaughters experiment with the sex drugs and rock and roll of the s.



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Ann Hood

Ann Hood's new novel, THE BOOK THAT MATTERS MOST, will be published August 9, 2016 by WW Norton. She is the author of the bestselling novels THE KNITTING CIRCLE, THE OBITUARY WRITER, THE RED THREAD, and SOMEWHERE OFF THE COAST OF MAINE. Her memoir, COMFORT: A JOURNEY THROUGH GRIEF, in which she shares her personal story of losing her 5 year old daughter Grace in 2002, was a New York Times Editor's Choice and named one of the top 10 non-fiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.



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