Splintered Lives

In 1900 Franca Raimondi lived a privileged life in Sicily. Franca puts aside her intellectual ambition and marries Edoardo Privitera an American exporter. They marry and are blessed with a daughter Giulia. In 1908 an earthquake buries their beloved child beneath the rubble. Miraculously Franca and Edoardo rescue her but the pain and suffocation foreshadow things to come. Giulia too nurtures her intellect but her ambitions are thwarted by Mussolini's March on Rome and the impassioned love of Alissandru Leone. Although they marry and add two children to the family Alissandru's philandering ways drive a wedge between them.<P> Seeking a better life Franca Giulia and their husbands move to the United States in the late 1920s as the Great Depression rages. Again their path to prosperity is impeded. As Alissandru's affairs and temper splint the family Franca rescues her grandchildren. She's determined to oppose the forces of nature love and politics that have thus far divided their lives. Splintered Lives will invade your dreams and infuse your mind with romance gone adrift. Only the deep love of a grandmother can restore the family to splendor as she tells the children You come from intelligence and class; surely it must come through.