She and her mother live in Los Angeles with her unforgettable great-aunts, the widows Mimi, Lala and Pep Moriburo, for whom love, a venereal disease of the heart, is curable through marriage. Her defense lawyer father, Giuseppe had been sentenced to internal exile in Mussolini’s fascist Italy because he defended anti-fascist clients, in circumstances that leave Maria bearing a burden of shameful guilt for which she refuses to accept any form of forgiveness.įifteen years later, on the eve of America's entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, invisible, underpaid and uncredited, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. Born in Rome, Italy where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria emigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her socialist’s father's arrest. Nationalism is encouraged and political opposition is not allowed, "like a creeping dictatorship"). ( Fascism: extreme right-wing political ideology or system of government with a powerful dictator and state control of most activities.
Plot Summary: Like many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood as a refugee in the 1940s to outrun her past from fascist Italy Europe. It touches on sacrifice, imperfect love, loss, family, identity, belonging, guilt, ambition and resilience. The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles - a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena".Anthony Marra: New York Times Bestselling Author of "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena” Random House Publishing Group, 2nd August 2022 – Historical Fiction - 432 pages Date: Sept 24th, 2022: Mercury Pictures Presents (a July 2022 Novel) by Anthony Marra “GENUINELY MOVING AND LIFE-AFFIRMING … A TRUE JOY TO READ”: CELESTE NG.
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