Stella Mia

Julia Parlatone doesn't have much to remember her Italian mother by. A grapevine that Sarina planted still flourishes in the background of Julia's childhood home in Astoria, Queens. And there's a song "Stella Mia" she recalls her mother signing--my star, my star, you are the most beautiful star--until the day she left three-year-old Julia behind and returned to Italy for good. Now a happily married school teacher, Julia tries not to dwell on a past she can't change or on a mother who chose to leave. But in an old trunk in the family basement, she discovers items that belong to her mother--a song book, Tarot cards, a Sicilian folk costume--and a diary. By the diary's end, Julia knows she must track down her mother in Italy and piece together the rest of the complex, bittersweet truth. 9780758275059 0758275056 368 BOOK Fiction NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O_srBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Rosanna Chiofalo
• | Publisher: Kensington
• | Publication Date: Dec 30, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0758275056
• | ISBN-13: 9780758275059