The girls of Piazza d'Amore
Subtitle: a short novel
By: Connie Guzzo-McParland
Publisher: Linda Leith Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Westmount, Quebec
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781927535196
Description: A quintessential Calabrian love story. The Girls of Piazza d Amore traces the lives of three village girls and the forces that lead them to leave home for a new life across the ocean. Set in southern Italy in the 1950s, Connie Guzzo-McParland's short novel walks us through the piazza and the narrow alleys of her own childhood, imaginatively recreating an entire world as seen through the eyes of a young girl who accompanies her friends on their evening passeggiate to the spring water fountain and carries their love notes to the boys they love. The joys of Calabrian village life are palpable, and so are its frustrations and heartbreaks, but this is a world on the cusp of irrevocable change, as family after family is leaving. And that s what is most heartbreaking of all.--Amazon.
Notes: Issued also in electronic formats.