We are thrilled to announce that Romania has become the nineteeth country to acquire translation rights to The Book of Names, and Greece brings the total to twenty.

Check your local or online bookseller for your copy now!  Happy reading!    

 

Click here to watch the book trailer for the paperback release of The Book of Names.  In stores, February 5, 2008.  Pre-order at Amazon.com now.

The news book clubs have been waiting for --The Book of Names is now in stores in paperback from St. Martin's. Stop in at your nearest bookseller or order now for instant shipping from Amazon.com or your favorite online store. 

Fourteen years after learning about my great-aunt Francesca, I drove out to the island where she was murdered with Detroit News reporter, Susan Whitall.  The News' videographer, David Coates, and photographer, Donna Terek, recorded the emotional visit to Detroit's Belle Isle -- my first in more than two decades.

Whitall's front-page story, which appeared in The Detroit News on November 10, 2007, is reprinted below, with the permission of The Detroit News.  You may also access the photo gallery directly from The Detroit News site.

 

I am delighted that Unto the Daughters has been nominated as a 2008 Michigan Notable Book.  Each year The State Library of Michigan honors twenty books --  either written by a Michigan author or else Michigan-based in theme or subject matter -- with this special designation.

Unto the Daughters has been nominated as a 2008 Michigan Notable Book.  Each year The State Library of Michigan honors twenty books --  either written by a Michigan author or else Michigan-based in theme or subject matter -- with this special designation.

My newest book of narrative nonfiction, Unto the Daughters: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian-American Family, will be published by St. Martin's Press in hardcover on July 24, 2007. It is the harrowing true story of a family secret held for more than eight decades.

Advance reviews have been terrific:

"Switching back and forth between rural Sicily and early 20th century Detroit, Unto the Daughters reads like a nonfiction version of the film Godfather II--if it had been told from the point of view of a female Corleone.

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