In America [Hardcover]

2016 Chanticleer Media's Chatelaine Book Awards Finalist

Beautiful, headstrong Marcella Scimenti has the affection of a handsome neighborhood boy, the love of her large Italian family, and serious dreams of singing in Hollywood. But the course of true lovenor the journey to finding ones true selfnever did run smooth.In Americafollows the story of Marcella, the daughter of the characters at the center of Nina Romanos continent-spanning Wayfarer Trilogy, as she comes of age in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, in the late 1920s. In the trilogys heartwarming conclusion, Marcella must learn to balance new friendships, promising suitors, and life as a modern working girl with the expectations of her tradition-bound family, all against the backdrop of a looming economic depression and a changing world. Along the way, she unearths a devastating family secret that shakes her to her core and tests the boundaries of her love, loyalty, and faith.

A young woman struggles to choose between love and her dreams of stardom in New York City at the beginning of the Depression. Nina RomanosIn Americais a charming story [...] Nina Romano has created a fascinating page turner using as backdrop a time period when family and family values were placed above almost everything else. -Reader's Favorite