What do we inherit, and what can we finally lay down?
"Your voice is not just yours.
It is ours. Let it echo"
DONNA NUCCI
THE PENNY
A novel of voice, memory, and the women who stayed.
From the salt-soaked ships of 1900s Italy to post-9/11 New York, The Penny traces five generations of women—midwives, mystics, nurses, and rebels—each carrying a copper coin and a secret they couldn't speak aloud.
So they wrote.
In oil-stained notebooks. In margins. On cassette tapes. In code.
These women couldn't say what they saw. But they recorded it—for us.
The Penny is not just a novel. It's a lineage of journals passed down, read aloud, and brought to voice.
What do you know about your legacy?
What stories live in your blood, waiting to be remembered?
MEET DONNA
Donna Nucci is a writer, nurse, and mother of four living along the Connecticut shoreline. After more than 30 years at the bedside, witnessing life’s most sacred moments, she began writing stories that honor the quiet strength and invisible labor of women—especially nurses. Her debut novel, The Penny, spans five generations of mothers and daughters bound by a single copper coin and the truths they could never say aloud. She believes death does not close the door—it opens it.
I believe death does not close the door—it opens it.
PRAISE FOR THE PENNY
- Advance Reader
“The Penny left me breathless. It’s a hymn to every woman who came before.”
— Advance reader
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