Becoming Mariella by Janet Constantino

Janet Constantino discusses her book Becoming Mariella with county superintendent of schools Barbara Nemko at Bookmine on Thursday, Feb. 13, at 6 p.m.   For fans of Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults and Jean Kwok’s Girl in Translation comes a contemporary coming-of-age tale about a young Italian immigrant woman’s desperate journey to find her personal freedom. It’s unprecedented, even in the 21st century, for a young Sicilian woman to defy the centuries-old mandate, “Family is everything!” but 22-year-old Mariella Russo is desperate to escape Sicily.

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