02172cam a2200337 i 4500 623894710 TxAuBib 20220803120000.0 190322s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062862822 hardcover 0062862820 hardcover NjBwBT NjBwBT eng eng rda rda NjBwBT rda GCmBT rda NjBwBT NjBwBT TJT TxAuBib GCmBT NjBwBT TJT TxAuBib rda Grames, Juliet, author. The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna / a novel By Juliet Grames. First edition. New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 2019. xvi, 445 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella's childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents--moments when ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella's own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted. In her rugged Italian village, Stella is considered an oddity--beautiful and smart, insolent and cold. Stella uses her peculiar toughness to protect her slower, plainer baby sister Tina from life's harshest realities. But she also provokes the ire of her father, Antonio, a man who demands subservience from women and whose greatest gift to his family is his absence. When the Fortunas emigrate to America on the cusp of World War II, Stella and Tina must come of age side by side in a hostile new world with strict expectations for each of them. Soon Stella learns that her survival is worthless without the one thing her family will deny her at any cost: her independence."--Back cover. 20220803. Families Italy Fiction. Italian Americans Fiction. Immigrants Fiction. Sisters Fiction. Novels. Domestic fiction. Fiction. TXKPL