Susan says: Read this book if you loved Cold Mountain! A passionate young woman with aspirations of becoming a surgeon navigates the prejudices of the day to help tend the legions of Civil War wounded.

Helen says: When she saves her nephew’s life, Sara’s own life changes in ways she could never have imagined. A beautiful story of family, which demonstrates that we can never truly know our parents or who they were before they became ours.

Lisa says: A dense, and complex story of early Italian immigration to America. This is the story of just one day in time during The Feast of Assumption, in Elephant Park 1953. Rocco the baker, a young seamstress, a history loving jeweler, and fierce Costanza the wealthy widow are among the wonderful characters that narrate this bittersweet, heartwrenching, story of poverty, piercing racism, and loyalty back and forth through time.