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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
by Juliet Grames
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna follows the life of Stella Fortuna and her family through years of near-death experiences, happiness, sadness and not being able to reach your full potential. This is a book about family and hard times, what people will do to survive and how they fight to get what they need, and how sometimes the sacrifices they make are overlooked by others.
Stella is the second Stella, as her namesake died at the age of three, although this doesn’t mean that Stella is overshadowed by the original Stella. The book is told as several personal stories that recount the incidents that lead to the many deaths of Stella. The book starts in rural Italy before World War II. Stella’s family life is hard, but they are free to live life the way they want to. There are a number of superstitions around Stella and how she may be cursed. I don’t want to list the ways that she escapes death, or what happens as that would ruin the book, but each story has a hint of what could either be human negligence or supernatural hindrance.
Stella wants more out of life, she doesn’t want to get married and have babies like the other girls in her village. With the return of her father, she feels more and more threatened and removed from the life she had before his return. When her father forces her family to leave everything they know to come to America and live as a family, everything changes for Stella, her mother and sister, as there are more rules, less freedom and a language that she will need to learn if she wants to get ahead which is a massive culture shock for them all.
Stella is the second Stella, as her namesake died at the age of three, although this doesn’t mean that Stella is overshadowed by the original Stella. The book is told as several personal stories that recount the incidents that lead to the many deaths of Stella. The book starts in rural Italy before World War II. Stella’s family life is hard, but they are free to live life the way they want to. There are a number of superstitions around Stella and how she may be cursed. I don’t want to list the ways that she escapes death, or what happens as that would ruin the book, but each story has a hint of what could either be human negligence or supernatural hindrance.
Stella wants more out of life, she doesn’t want to get married and have babies like the other girls in her village. With the return of her father, she feels more and more threatened and removed from the life she had before his return. When her father forces her family to leave everything they know to come to America and live as a family, everything changes for Stella, her mother and sister, as there are more rules, less freedom and a language that she will need to learn if she wants to get ahead which is a massive culture shock for them all.