The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia
Book description
One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The best-selling author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna brings us a sparkling—by turns funny and moving—novel about a young American woman turned amateur detective in a small village in Southern Italy (“Terrific” –Boston Globe).
Calabria,…
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1 author picked The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This marvelous novel took me on an incredible journey to a southern Italian village full of secrets. Set in 1960, the story revolves around a young American woman struggling to leave a bad marriage, who comes to the village to set up a school and is immediately embroiled in a mysterious death for which everyone seems to have their own explanation. The austere Calabrian setting is gorgeously evoked, as is the local language -- a form of Byzantine Greek preserved over centuries due to the village's isolation -- and simple yet mouthwatering cuisine. While the narrator learns quite a bit…
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