italian american women

A collection of short fiction stories that follow the lives of sisters Angel and Lina Lupo from girlhood in their parents' Italian Catholic home, to adulthood, marriage, and divorce.

Thirty-three-year-old Valentine Roncalli, faced with the seemingly impossible task of helping her family's Greenwich Village shoe business rebound from financial ruin, travels to Tuscany in search of techniques and materials which will help her rebuild the company, and while she is there, she learns a secret and has life-changing experiences.

While balancing between life and death, an elderly woman remembers the terrors she faced during World War II, and the events that changed her life after the liberation. Scott lives in Brighton, NY, and teaches at UR.

The Angelini Shoe Company of Greenwich Village is near collapse. Determined to save her family's company, Valentine Roncalli accompanies her grandmother to Italy to learn new techniques and find unique materials. Then Valentine learns a family secret that turns her world upside down.

New York shoemaker Valentine Roncalli is at her grandmother's wedding in Tuscany when she learns that her brother has been made partner with her in the family business. Valentine escapes the drama by re-igniting her relationship with Gianluca. When Valentine takes a business trip to Buenos Aires, she discovers a family secret that threatens to destroy the Roncallis. Valentine struggles to keep the family together while debating her future with Gianluca.

Eight years into her marriage, now a mother, Ave Maria Mulligan struggles with temptation in the form of a handsome stranger on vacation in Italy, suspecting that her husband is having an affair.

The Angelini Shoe Company of Greenwich Village is near collapse. Determined to save her family's company, Valentine Roncalli accompanies her grandmother to Italy to learn new techniques and find unique materials. Then Valentine learns a family secret that turns her world upside down.

New York shoemaker Valentine Roncalli is at her grandmother's wedding in Tuscany when she learns that her brother has been made partner with her in the family business. Valentine escapes the drama by re-igniting her relationship with Gianluca. When Valentine takes a business trip to Buenos Aires, she discovers a family secret that threatens to destroy the Roncallis. Valentine struggles to keep the family together while debating her future with Gianluca.

Nella Castelluca, daughter of Italian immigrants, lives on a farm outside Roseto, Pennsylvania, and dreams of living in town away from the hard life of her parents. Nella falls in love with the handsome poet Renato Lanzara, who suddenly leaves town and breaks Nella's heart. When he reappears four years later the night before Nella's wedding to another, Nella's life is forever changed.

Even though she is engaged, fashion designer Lucia Sartori falls in love with a good-looking stranger who promises her a life of luxury, and she almost destroys her Italian family ties.