Like the Bitter Orange

For readers of Elena Ferrante and in the tradition of the Italian classic The Leopard, a sweeping Sicilian saga of family, ambition, and inheritance set against the rise of fascism, the shadow of the Mafia, and the decline of an old social order.

Sicily, 1924. In the fishing village of Sarraca, where ancient loyalties run deeper than the law and everyone is Sicilian before they are Italian, two young women find their lives bound together by a secret that will reverberate across decades.

Nar...