Synopses & Reviews
Lucia Santa came to New York from the mountain farms of Italy because she knew there had to be a better life. But what she finds in the streets of Hell's Kitchen is a life to break a strong woman's heart. Two tragic marriages, six children to support by herself, a fiery-hearted daughter who insists on living and loving as an American, an oldest son who gets involved with the mafia. And through it all, Lucia Santa--wife, widow, mother, grandmother--endures as a woman of incomparable dignity, courage, and passion.
Filled with laughter and tears, fury and forgiveness, The Fortunate Pilgrim is a spellbinding portrait of a family determined to survive in America. It is a novel that only Mario Puzo could have written.
Synopsis
Before The Godfather and The Last Don, Mario Puzo wrote this, his most personal work, a novel many believe to be one of the classics of Italian-American fiction.
Lucia Santa has traveled three thousand miles from the mountains of Italy to the streets of New York. She finds herself in Hell's Kitchen, in a bad marriage, raising six children on her own. As Lucia struggles to hold her family together, her daughter confronts the adult world of work and romance, while her eldest son is drawn into the mafia.
In "The Fortunate Pilgrim", readers will discover a different side of a favorite author, writing for the first time about an Italian family in which a woman holds the power.