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and a
small bio from Susan Speranza. Visit the
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The Tale of Lucia Grande, the Early Years
When
an old woman is asked to tell the story of her life, she tells is an
intense and poignant tale about growing up in and surviving an
irrational, warring suburban family during the 1950s and 60s. The
narrative is told from Lucia’s perspective as the second child where she
and her siblings are caught in the middle of a lifelong war between her
mother, Ruth, an overbearing, unhappy homemaker, and her father,
Leonard, a manipulative, sometimes violent New York City cop. Lucia is
the silent, thoughtful eyewitness to her parents’ constant and sometimes
life-threatening battle.
The story is told as a memoir; each chapter describes a particular incident in Lucia’s life which shows the constant struggle between her parents and the perverse effect it has on her and her siblings. From her complicated and unwanted birth, to her witnessing a suicide at age 3, to her stint as a runaway at age 14, the story progresses to the final crisis where as a young woman, she is turned out of her house and banished from her family forever.
This timeless story of one woman’s courageous attempt to come to terms with her past and the troubled family that dominated it is powerfully and poignantly told.
The story is told as a memoir; each chapter describes a particular incident in Lucia’s life which shows the constant struggle between her parents and the perverse effect it has on her and her siblings. From her complicated and unwanted birth, to her witnessing a suicide at age 3, to her stint as a runaway at age 14, the story progresses to the final crisis where as a young woman, she is turned out of her house and banished from her family forever.
This timeless story of one woman’s courageous attempt to come to terms with her past and the troubled family that dominated it is powerfully and poignantly told.
This
novel recently made it to the Quarter final rounds in the Amazon
Breakthrough Novel Award Contest. Amazon reviewers called it great
storytelling and the wrote that the prose “ flows with such beauty you
are holding your breath to eagerly read each word!”
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