Description

In Elizabeth Block, Laurie Fabiano informs an amazing, and formerly unheard, tale of the Italian immigrant experience in the beginning of the twentieth-century. Culled from her very own genealogy, Fabiano offers an enchanting picture of Giovanna Costa, who, drawing from individual disasters, attempts to create a new life in a new world. Shot through with all the scents and sights of Scilla, Italy, and New York’s robust Little Italy, this intoxicating tale uses Giovanna as she discovers friendship, remembers the birth of the baby-girl, takes delight in a developing company, and feels a feeling of belonging on the family trip to Coney Island. Nevertheless, these small achievements are compensated with all the interest of the infamous Black Hand, a team of raw extortionists brought by Lupo the Hair.