Description

A haunting story of the disintegration of an American and Italian family caught in Europe during World War II.

Finlaist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the General Adult Fiction category
Winner of the 2017 Italian American Studies Association Book Award

This gripping story of love and loss centers on Marco, an Italian diplomat; Alice, his American wife; and their young children. Stationed in Prague during World War II, Marco and Alice become enemies when the United States enters the war, forcing Alice and the children to move from Prague to Rome and finally to Cernobbio in a desperate attempt to flee to Switzerland. Through alternating passages narrated by Alice and daughter Susie, readers shuttle back and forth between war-torn Europe and 1950s Massachusetts to search for answers and unravel the mystery about what really happened to Alice during the war.