Ann Goldstein

"Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about responsibility, siblings, and caregiving. Without warning or explanation, an unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family : a large, chaotic assortment of individuals whom she has never met and who seem anything but welcoming. Thus begins a new...