This book was AMAZING. The story starts off in the early 1900s in Italy. It follows two characters, a young boy named Ciro and a young girl named Enza, who eventually keep running into each other throughout their life. When Ciro is young his father is killed in a mining accident and his mother, who suffers a mental breakdown, cannot take care of him or his brother so she places them in a convent where they receive care from the nuns. Years go by, and when Ciro is 15 he witnesses a disturbing secret of the convent Priest. The Priest, in a fit of anger, banishes Ciro and his brother from the convent and decides to split them both up. The nuns save Ciro from a harsh sentence and secretly send him to America in the care of a shoemaker.
Enza is the eldest of six kids and acts like their second mother. When the youngest child becomes deathly ill, Enza and her father decide to go to America to earn money for their family. Once in America, after barely surviving the voyage, Enza picks up factory jobs (setting aside her talent of sewing and dream of being a seamstress). She and Ciro run into each other from time to time, after first meeting back in Italy when they were young. A love develops between them but timing and events keep getting in the way. Will they ever be together? Find out and see.
The story goes on to follow adulthood Enza and Ciro with many events in between. It's full of love and tragedy but well worth the read.
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