Vita: A Novel by Melania Mazzucco

Vita: A Novel

Melania Mazzucco with Virginia Jewiss (Translator)

448 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction historical emotional reflective slow-paced
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In April 1903, the steamship Republic spills more than two thousand immigrants onto Ellis Island. Among them are Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, nine, sent by their poor families in southern Italy to make their way in America. Amid the chaos and s...

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