The Lost American Dream

What does it mean to belong in a country built on both opportunity and exclusion? The Lost American Dream confronts this question with heart humour and unflinching insight.<br /><br />From the working-class streets of 1950s Rome New York to the ivy-covered halls of Georgetown University this sweeping novel follows one young Italian-American man's search for identity and purpose in an America divided by class culture and war. As the Vietnam draft looms Enrico pivots from mathematics to medicine a decision that propels him into the elite world of American academia and into the orbit of Athena a brilliant physician with roots in Boston's old-money aristocracy. Their lives intertwine against a backdrop of privilege and restlessness where Enrico must reconcile his humble beginnings with the glittering but hollow circles he now inhabits.<br /><br />With a clear-eyed view of America's contradictions this deeply personal novel explores love ambition and the eternal questions of identity and purpose. Inspired by true events The Lost American Dream is a sweeping and soulful coming-of-age tale steeped in cultural heritage and quiet revelation.