A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best
friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age
story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself. Two daughters. Two
families. One inescapable fate.
Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo
is thoughtful, ever observing the world around her. Best friends
since birth, they live in the shadow of their fathers unspoken
community: the Family. Sunday dinners gather them each week to
feast, discuss business, and renew the intoxicating bond borne of
blood and love.
But the disappearance of Antonia's father drives a whisper-thin
wedge between the girls as they grow into women, wives, mothers,
and leaders.