Georgia Hunter
Author Georgia Hunter Will Talk About Her New Book at Darien Library, Tuesday, Oct 7
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Darien Library and Barrett Bookstore welcome local author, Georgia Hunter, who will talk about her new book, One Good Thing, the long-awaited follow-up to her 2017 bestselling debut, We Were the Lucky Ones. — an announcement from Darien Library and Barrett Bookstore
A stirring and heartfelt tale of friendship, motherhood, and survival, the story takes place during the 1940s, in Italy’s Emilia Romagna region. Lili and Esti have been best friends since meeting at the University of Ferrara; when Esti’s son Theo is born, they become as close as sisters. There is a war being fought across borders, and in Italy, Mussolini’s Racial Laws have deemed Lili and Esti descendants of an ‘inferior’ Jewish race, but life somehow goes on — until Germany invades northern Italy, and the friends find themselves in occupied territory. Esti, older and fiercely self-assured, convinces Lili to flee first to a villa in the countryside to help hide a group of young war orphans, then to a convent in Florence, where they pose as nuns and forge false identification papers for the Underground.