In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu: A Novel

In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu is a magical warm and wise novel about a close-knit familys immigration from Sicily to America in the early 1900s. Wanting more for their children and grandchildren than a lifetime of servitude in the fields of a tyrannical Sicilian landlord Papa Santuzzu and his wife Adriana push their seven sons and daughters one by one to immigrate to La Merica a land of promise and opportunity. Here is a rich and vibrant novel about the stories families tell each other stories that make up a deeply personal and a common history.