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Summary: The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FERFerrante, Elena
Summary: Elena and Lila are now adults; life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship remained the gravitational center of their lives. Both once fought to escape the violence and corruption of Naples. Brilliant and bookish, Elena succeeded but has returned to be with the man she always loved. And fiery, uncontainable Lila,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cenage Learning 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FERFerrante, Elena
Summary: Italian teenager Giovanna searches for a sense of identity and clear perspectives when she finds herself torn between the refinements and excesses of a divided Naples.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERFerrante, Elena
Summary: Friends Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and has published a successful novel. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. Afloat on the sea of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cenage Learning 2016