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Books like The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
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This sweeping story follows an Italian couple from their Alpine home to immigrant life in America, centering family, love, and generational change.
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An elderly Jewish American woman recalls her youth in an immigrant Boston family, offering a similarly intimate portrait of women across generations.
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Set in New York's Little Italy, this novel follows an Italian immigrant mother struggling to hold her family together.
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An unexpected connectionA family story spanning generations offers an expansive, unexpected counterpart to a saga rooted in migration and inherited history.
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An Italian American woman's coming-of-age story connects family roots in Italy with life in a Pennsylvania mining town.
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Across decades, a son reckons with the difficult legacy of his celebrated Italian artist father.
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The first Neapolitan novel follows two girls and their intertwined families from childhood into adulthood in postwar Italy.
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An unexpected connectionTwo supernatural newcomers build lives in turn-of-the-century New York, bridging immigrant experience with imaginative historical fiction.
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This classic Sicilian family novel traces a noble household through upheaval and social change in nineteenth-century Italy.
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Puzo turns to the Borgia family in a historical saga of kinship and power in Renaissance Italy.
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A Bengali American family negotiates immigration, inheritance, and belonging across two generations.
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An unexpected connectionA childless couple's remote Alaskan life takes on a folkloric dimension, connecting family longing to an unfamiliar landscape.
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Interlinked stories explore the bonds and misunderstandings between immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters.
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This multigenerational saga follows a Korean family whose history spans migration, hardship, and life in Japan.
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A lifelong friendship between two women on Jeju Island unfolds amid family ties and turbulent historical events.
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An unexpected connectionThe daughter of an immigrant family pursues a scientific life in this expansive historical novel about inheritance and ambition.
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A Vietnamese grandmother and granddaughter tell a family story shaped by war and political change.
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A mother's account of her past in China deepens her relationship with her American-born daughter.
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Twin siblings and their extended family anchor a richly textured novel about kinship and the lasting consequences of the past.
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An unexpected connectionA mysterious child changes the fortunes of a Mexican family in a saga that blends historical events with a touch of the uncanny.
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Twin sisters take radically different paths, and their choices reverberate through the next generation.
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A brother and sister look back on the family home and the ties that shape their lives across decades.
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Four sisters and their parents form the center of a sprawling contemporary portrait of family loyalties and conflict.
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An unexpected connectionThis Australian family saga follows several generations, offering a distant but compelling parallel in scale and familial intensity.
About the book
Juliet Grames’s 2019 novel follows an Italian American family through a multigenerational saga shaped by sisters, immigration, and the Second World War.
About the author
Juliet Grames is an American novelist and editor; this novel draws on the family-saga tradition and Italian American history.