Read by Cassandra CampbellFrom 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 heartbreakAn 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 doesnt know or loveBound 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 her other children whose stories unfold in surprising ways go off to war get married and make their own mistakes Her son suffers in World War I Her daughter struggles to assimilate in the new world of the s American suburbs And her granddaughters experiment with the sex drugs and rock and roll of the s.
