Ebook {Epub PDF} Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabiano

Based on true events, Elizabeth Street is a multigenerational saga that opens in an Italian village in the 's, and crosses the ocean to New York's Lower East Side. At the heart of the novel is Giovanna, whose family is targeted by the notorious Black Hand - the precursor to the Mafia. Laurie Fabiano takes us much further in Elizabeth Street. Basing her story on her own family narratives, she paints a vivid portrait not just of immigrants’ lives in the first years of the last century, but of the vicious criminals who preyed on them.  · Laurie Fabiano wrote the story, not as a personal account, but based on historical factual events passed on by her great-grandmother. Elizabeth Street begins with a young, love-filled Italian girl Giovanna, living in Sicilia, who, with great anticipation and hope, follows her husband to America seeking the “promised land”.Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.

Elizabeth Street (link) by Laurie Fabiano does a great job portraying the Black Hand in its real light and telling the true story of how a poor Italian immigrant outwitted them. This book is packed with stories worth telling, but three things stood out to me the most. The first mini plot that had me shook was the way that Italian immigrants. In Elizabeth Street, Laurie Fabiano tells a remarkable, and previously unheard, story of the Italian immigrant experience at the start of the twentieth century. With stories culled from her own family history, Fabiano paints an entrancing portrait of Giovanna Costa, who, reeling from personal tragedies, tries to make a new life in a new world. Author of "Elizabeth Street," Laurie Fabiano, talks about her family's courageous battle with the Italian Mafia. 10/13/12 #

Author: Laurie Fabiano Publish Date: May In Elizabeth Street, Laurie Fabiano tells a remarkable, and previously unheard, story of the Italian immigrant experience at the start of the twentieth century. Culled from her own family history, Fabiano paints an entrancing portrait of Giovanna Costa, who. Based on true events, Elizabeth Street is a multigenerational saga that opens in an Italian village in the 's, and crosses the ocean to New York's Lower East Side. At the heart of the novel is Giovanna, whose family is targeted by the notorious Black Hand - the precursor to the Mafia. Laurie Fabiano wrote the story, not as a personal account, but based on historical factual events passed on by her great-grandmother. Elizabeth Street begins with a young, love-filled Italian girl Giovanna, living in Sicilia, who, with great anticipation and hope, follows her husband to America seeking the “promised land”.