An Italian Wife info
[Read by Cassandra Campbell]
From the bestselling author of The Obituary Writer comes the stirring multigenerational story of an Italian family. Poignant, sensual, and deeply felt, An Italian Wife is a sweeping and evocative portrait of a family bound by love and heartbreak.
An Italian Wife opens in turnofthecentury Italy, when young Josephine Rimaldi is forced to follow her new husband to America in an arranged marriage and finds herself in a strange country with a man she doesn't know or love.
Bound by tradition, she gives birth to seven children; the last, conceived in a passionate affair, Josephine must give up for adoption. Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for this child, keeping her secret even as h
