Italian Immigrant Fiction

WINNER!!! Christianity Today Award 2023 (print)!!! Count your nights by stars, not shadows. Count your life with smiles, not tears. 1961. After a longtime resident at Nashville’s historic Maxwell House Hotel suffers a debilitating stroke, Audrey Whitfield is tasked with cleaning out the...

They grew up together in Brooklyn. They fell in love when they were never supposed to. In 1945, ten-year-old Jeanette's world is a crowded Brooklyn neighborhood where children play in the streets, mothers call from tenement windows, Sunday dinners mean family, and everyone seems to know everyone else's business. At the center of her world is Sonny—her best friend, her confidant, and her cousin. What begins as an innocent childhood bond deepens as they grow older, until Jeanette and Sonny are forced to confront a truth neither can deny: they are in love. But in a close-knit Sicilian family...

Largely autobiographical, Christ in Concrete opens with the dramatic Good Friday collapse of a building under construction, crucifying in concrete an Italian construction worker, whose death leaves his pregnant wife and eight children impoverished. His oldest son, Paul, at just 12 years old, must take over his father’s role—and his job.

The Mississippi Delta. Before the Blues Had a Name. In 1895, five hundred Italian immigrants boarded a ship in Naples with a papal blessing and a contract they couldn't read. The contract was a trap. The land they were headed to — ten thousand acres of Mississippi bottomland — had already broken convicts and freed men and every scheme Austin Corbin had tried before them. Antonio Piccolo knew the contract was a trap before he signed it. His uncle had told him: every system has a window. The people who build rooms are never as smart as they think. He was right. He just didn't know what ...

Allegiance in Blood - A Mafia Dark Romance A daughter bartered. A vow sealed. A marriage written in blood. New York, 1920s. The Capozzoli Syndicate rules the docks, where debts are paid in ledgers and enforced with knives. When Don Rossi can no longer pay what he owes, he offers all he has left of value, his daughter, Caterina. Forced into a marriage meant to erase her family’s debt, Caterina vows she will never bow to Vincenzo Capozzoli, the ruthless heir who claims her hand. But Vincenzo is no man’s pawn. Cold, calculating, and unyielding, he sees in Caterina not weakness but defiance...

Welcome to LA? Nineties' Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny coming-of-age novel featuring a teenage girl who's on shaky ground—in more ways than one. Mere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles, Eugenia, a typical Italian teenager, is...

Never has Inspector Montalbano's character – a unique blend of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food – been more compelling than in Andrea Camilleri's third Montalbano novel, The Snack Thief. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an...

The Brothers’ Oath of Shadows The Capozzoli Syndicate Trilogy — Book III by Gianna Capozzoli A Mafia Family Crime Drama Set in the Ruthless Underworld of 1930s New York The Capozzoli Syndicate once commanded the darkest corners of New York City. Now, in 1933, their greatest threat no longer comes from rival gangs but from inside their own bloodline. Vincenzo Capozzoli, heir to the vow forged by their immigrant matriarch, rules with unyielding discipline, clinging to the old-world code that shaped their dynasty. Antonio Capozzoli, torn between loyalty and love, risks everything to ...

Next Generation Indie Book Awards Chick Lit Finalist 2023 National Indie Excellence Awards Chick Lit Finalist 2023 Independent Author Network Book of the Year Women's Fiction Finalist 2023 American Writing Awards Women's Fiction Finalist 2023 NYC Big Book Award Chick Lit Distinguished Favorite 2023 Indies Today Semi-Finalist 2022 Fiercely independent Mary Pontrelli is blindsided when the New Orleans building housing her New Age store and upstairs apartment is listed for sale. Worse yet, a developer wants to destroy it and her high school ex-boyfriend—ahem, nemesis—is leading their ...

Next Generation Indie Book Awards Chick Lit Finalist 2022 International Book Awards Women's Fiction Finalist 2002 Best Book Awards Women's Fiction Finalist 2022 New York City Big Book Award Contemporary Novel Distinguished Favorite 2022 Indies Today Semi-Finalist 2021 Book 1 in The Difference Duology When anxiety-prone Rachel Granza learns that her growing sense of emptiness is affecting her relationship with her almost perfect boyfriend and that she’s jeopardizing any possibility of a marriage proposal, she knows she must pull herself out of her funk. But how? A dream apartment in New ...

Spoiler alert: To avoid mind-altering information below, read the novel, The Difference, first! Twelve years after anxiety-prone Rachel Granza achieved her genealogy journey, emptiness creeps back into her otherwise perfect life, married to Brian in the ‘burbs with a booming psychotherapy practice. She finally has a clue about her mental health and knows her old coping methods jeopardize relationships and beyond. No thanks. But what would return her peace? A new ancestry mission? Yes, that’s it! Deciding she still needs answers to lingering questions about her Italian family history, ...