Elisa M. Speranza

Italian Prisoner (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

1943. New Orleans. Rose Marino lives with her Sicilian immigrant parents and helps in the family grocery store. Her older brother and sister both joined the Army, and Rose prays for their safety as World War II rages overseas. Her parents expect Rose to marry a local boy and start a family. But she secretly dreams of being more like her fiercely independent widowed godmother. Behind her parents' back, Rose lands a job at the shipyard, where she feels free and important for the first time in her life. When the parish priest organizes a goodwill mission to visit Italian prisoners of war at a nearby military base, Rose and her vivacious best friend, Marie, join the group. There, Rose falls for Sal, a handsome and intelligent POW. Italy has switched sides in the war, so the POWs are allowed out to socialize, giving Rose and Sal a chance to grow closer. When Rose gets a promotion at work, she must make an agonizing choice: follow a traditional path like Marie or keep working after the war and live on her own terms.Inspired by little-known historical events and set to a swing-era soundtrack, The Italian Prisoner is an engrossing story of wartime love, family secrets, and a young woman's struggle to chart her own course at an inflection point in American history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gatekeeper Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781662924149
• Artikelnr.: 66249289

Autorenporträt

Elisa M. Speranza is a fiction writer based in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Her 2022 debut novel, The Italian Prisoner, was a finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. She serves on the board of the New Orleans Writers Workshop and has been a featured author at the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival, the Louisiana Book Festival, and the Islanders Write conference on Martha's Vineyard. She is a co-founder of the Washashores Writers Collective.The granddaughter of Irish and Italian immigrants, Ms. Speranza has been a writer and book nerd all her life. Her first paid job was in the children's room of her town's public library. She was a journalist early in her career and has worked in local government, on non-profit boards, and as a global business executive and corporate director. Ms. Speranza was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and is an alumna of Boston College and Harvard's Kennedy School. A New Orleanian by choice since 2002, she lives with Jon Kardon there and in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.