Join Ink Fish Books and the George Hail Free Library for an author event with Juliet Grames the author of, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna. We'll discuss her debut novel now in paperback, her full of life characters, and her writing inspirations, plus take Q&A from you. This book is one of our favorites from 2019. From Calabria to Connecticut: a sweeping family saga about sisterhood, secrets, Italian immigration, the American dream, and one woman's tenacious fight against her own fate

For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents—moments where 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 in his absence.

Juliet Grames was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and grew up in a tight-knit Italian-American family. A book editor, she has spent the last decade at Soho Press, where she is an associate publisher and curator of the Soho Crime imprint. This is her first novel.

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Purchase The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna here online at Ink Fish Books with shipping and curbside pickup options.