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An
Ordinary Star
by Carole
Giangrande
Novel
320 pages
Hard cover
5.125” x 7.625”
ISBN: 1896951562
$29.95
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An
Ordinary Star
by Carole
Giangrande
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In her last days, Sofia Fiore remembers a time of radiance and darkness.
She lived in the Twenties, when the first Zeppelin flew over Manhattan
and when a solar eclipse dazzled the Bronx, N.Y. Drawn to the wondrous,
she never stopped seeing extraordinary things.
In the shadows of depression and war, she reveres her father, the
good Dr. Gentile, a naïve follower of Mussolini, her mother
Livia, whose fading light heralds her death and her anarchist grandparents
living on the lower East Side of Manhattan. She witnesses the dramatic
escape of her beloved Aunt Julia and Uncle Paul from the flaming
Hindenburg — only to see them vanish. Many years later, Sofia
is stricken by a missing chunk of the past as it smashes through
memory. As she's dying, she grapples with a time that began in hope
and ended in uncertainty until she comes to terms with her family's
legacy of truth, illusion, and wonder.
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