Why a Booktrail?
2003 onwards: This novel is a sequel to Castellani’s A Kiss From Maddelena set in Italy. The book picks up years later -in America
The Saint of Lost Things
What you need to know before your trail
Even after seven years in Wilmington, Delaware, Maddalena Grasso still feels unsettled. She misses her mother and her native Italy most of all. Working as a seamstress of sorts at a local factory, all she really wants to do is to become pregnant. Despite her husband Antonio, relentlessly pursuing the so-called American Dream, they’re not really getting anywhere and she’s worried that what they have been able to build up will soon come crashing to the ground if they are not careful.
Travel Guide
Antonio calls Wilmington a half city, Philadelphia a real city and New York, the city.
This is a story is about an Italian immigrant family trying to make it and settle into America, trying to create their version of the American dream and finding that things are not so clear cut as they seem.
How they manage with the strange landscape and culture is an insight into how immigrants must struggle to fit in and the problems they come across and the longing that they retain for their own culture and language and for the familiar scene of home.
Streetview Maps
C) St. Anthony of Padua Church
D) A sewing factory
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Saint of Lost Things
Author/Guide: Christopher Castellani Destination: Wilmington Departure Time: 2003 onwards
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