Amy's Story

After Elena Ferrante another powerful Italian voice tells a gripping story of two women across two continents. Amy's Story takes the reader on a life journey from Italy to the US. Following in the steps of Amy (full name America) and her childhood friend Stella, the reader experiences friendship, love, struggle, and social turmoil against the background of American history from the 1960s to 2011.
Amy moves from Italy to New York to live near her American father. Her journey from immigrant to successful publisher is intertwined with the story of Stella, whose unfinished memoir she intends to publish.
They both experience love, setbacks, and success, as their paths run parallel to major historical events ―the Vietnam War, student protests, the hippie culture, the birth of radicalism and feminism, presidential elections and assassinations, immigration, the Watergate scandal, up to the 9/11 attack and beyond― providing an interesting commentary on the highlights in history that influenced the development of American society and brought about the current outcome.
Additional captivating characters complete the picture and sustain the action: Jim, a heartthrob who conceals his sensitive nature under a bravado facade; Steve, Stella's husband, conformist and uninspiring; Nik, a passionate and extravagant Russian intellectual; Rosa, once a maid at Amy's grandmother's country estate and now married to the owner of a New York pizzeria.
Stella's memoir never gets published, because Amy transforms it into a very successful novel. This twist will have readers re-imagine the entire story, and see it from a surprising new perspective.