Sonja’s Pick
October 2024
The Sicilian Inheritance: A Novel
Jo Piazza
Fiction
Dutton Publishing, April 2, 2024
Sara finds herself with a plane ticket in hand to Sicily after the death of favorite Aunt Rosie. She’s just suffered the loss of a business and a husband so is quite ready to find out if she is entitled to the deed of a possibly valuable piece of land the matriarch left her. Just a few days…turns into a murder mystery. She tells her story and is tangled into the same web her Great Grandmother found herself in the early 1900’s.
One chapter is about Sara “today” and another about Serafine “then.” It was historically interesting to learn that many Sicilian men left for America in the 1930’s to earn money, leaving the women and children behind to come later. But Serafina did not come later.
Turn to this twisting adventure to find the real truth!