The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna (2019)

Moving from Calabria to Connecticut changes the setting of Stella’s life without automatically changing who is allowed to control it. Grames follows a long span of survival, work and sisterhood, making the immigrant household a place of protection and coercion at once. A substantial family novel for readers interested in the freedoms relocation actually delivers. Domestic and sexual violence are central to its darker understanding of endurance.