A review by booklvrkat
The Anarchist's Wife by Margo Laurie

4.0

“Your brother asked me to write this for you: a memoir about our family.” The author catches us here and takes us on the story of her life, with her husband, with her children, running, hiding from the government, and farther. Based on a true story located in Massachusetts, of accused payroll robbers Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The author has done her homework on this story and has given her research to you at the end to corroborate this fiction. As we wind through the tale you feel at once that there is something big coming. Told from the perspective of Rosa Sacco, my heart was with her the entire tale. From the start of the telling at two in the morning on the 14th of December 1927 through the chapter titled Happiness, I was engaged. When I reached the acknowledgements from the author I was captivated. I love getting the backstory on a work of fiction, how the author came about her story, how she was able to wind the truth around the fiction to make a story truly hers. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.