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The Summer of Oprah: Elizabeth Street
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In the novel Elizabeth Street, Laurie Fabiano traces her family’s journey from early twentieth-century Scilla, Italy, to modern-day New York City. While the prose is choppy and the book design amateur (it is published by Amazon Encore, a confusing Amazon-driven publishing house), the story of Fabiano’s great-grandmother Giovanna and the family’s many trials is even more astounding for being based on a true story. Giovanna is a pillar of strength as she faces tragedy after tragedy and still manages to build a life for herself and her family in the New World.
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