Fortunate Pilgrim
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780449003589
Subjects: Fiction, thrillers, suspense; New york (n.y.), fiction; Italian americans, fiction
Description: Lucia Santa came to New York from the mountain farms of Italy because she knew there had to be a better life. But what she finds in the streets of Hell's Kitchen is a life to break a strong woman's heart. Two tragic marriages, six children to support by herself, a fiery-hearted daughter who insists on living and loving as an American, an oldest son who gets involved with the mafia.

And through it all, Lucia Santa - wife, widow, mother, grandmother - endures as a woman of incomparable dignity, courage, and passion.