Told with the intimacy and ferocity of Elena Ferrante's
Neapolitan Novels and set in the passionate, intense, and
crumbling neighborhood known as the Spanish Quarter of Naples,
comes a tale of two students searching for love and belonging in
the city they so desperately want to call home.
Several years after leaving Naples, Heddi receives an email from
Pietro, her first love, admitting that he was wrong. Immediately
Heddi is transported back to her college days in that
heartbreakingly beautiful city built on the ruins of a legendary
empire set against the backdrop of a sleeping volcano. The
narrow, winding streets of Naples's Spanish Quarter still sparks
the pain of longing and a desire to belong. It is the place she
so wanted to call home despite being l'americano. But for Heddi's
tribe of university friends, Naples was the first taste of
freedom and an escape from their familial obligations.