The seven or eight deaths of Stella Fortuna

The Resource The seven or eight deaths of Stella Fortuna
Label
The seven or eight deaths of Stella Fortuna
Statement of responsibility
Juliet Grames
Title variation
7 or 8 deaths of Stella Fortuna
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
When I tell you Stella Fortuna was a special girl, I hope you aren't thinking small-town special. Other people would underestimate Stella Fortuna during her long life, and not one of them didn't end up regretting it. Hundred-year-old Stella Fortuna sits alone in her house in Wethersfield, Connecticut, crocheting blankets and angrily ignoring her sister, Tina, who lives across the street. Born into abject poverty in an Italian village, Stella Fortuna's name might mean Lucky Star, but for the last century, her life has been defined by all the times she might have died. Up until now, Stella's close bond with her sister has been one of the few things to survive her tumultuous life, but something has happened, and nobody can understand what it might be. Does the one life and many (near) deaths of Stella Fortuna have secrets still to be revealed, even to those who believe they are closest to her? By turns a family saga, a ghost story, and a coming-of cranky-old-age tale, Juliet Grames's THE SEVEN OR EIGHT DEATHS OF STELLA FORTUNA lays bare the costs of migration and patriarchal values, but also of the love and devotion that can sustain a family through generations, in a sprawling 20th century saga of a young woman with a fire inside her which cannot be put out.--Provided by publisher
Cataloging source
YDX
Dewey number
813.6
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Target audience
adult

Context

Context of The seven or eight deaths of Stella Fortuna

Work of

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Randwick City Library. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.