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Italian American Issues, Literature

La Madre Italia

"And there were red geraniums everywhere: Women's Italian Diaspora in North America"

Date
Monday, April 28, 2025
Time
6:00 pm

Overview

La Madre Italia

Book Presentation
And There Were Red Geraniums Everywhere:
Women’s Voices of the Italian Diaspora in North America
(2024, Radici Edizioni)

Edited and with a forward by
Valentina Di Cesare, Michela Valmori

Afterword by
Emanuele Pettener, Ilaria Serra

Published and translated by
Gianluca Salustri / Radici Edizioni

In ENGLISH

Anthologies are communities. And There Were Red Geraniums Everywhere won, “La letteratura delle radici,” prize for anthologies in Italy. Now it will be presented for the first time in English. Join us for a gathering of Italian American women writers– Annie Lanzillotto, Jennifer Romanello, Luisa Del Giudice, Kathryn Curto, Jean Feraca, Joanna Clapps Herman, Chiara Montalto, Gail Reitano, Dr. Loretta D’Orsogna who will be reading from their essays and talking with the audience about what it means to be an Italian American woman living outside of la madre Italia.