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Donna Nucci Author, Nurse, Listener
“Every family keeps a secret. Ours took
seven generations of women to tell.”
Lisa Armstrong, Point Pleasant, New Jersey 2019
The Penny
A Novel by DONNA NUCCI
COMING May 2027
Buy for your mom, daughter, sister, wife or nurse, in your life.
A solitary copper penny. A hundred years of untold stories.
"The Penny" is a family saga that traces the lives of seven generations of Italian-American women. Luigia, the first to guard her truth
in silence; Lena, who remains silent and pregnant at 17, leaving Italy alone; and Lisa, a tech visionary in the post-9/11 era,
who captures memories through sound
"My lips forgot their pieties and remembered
only the taste of him."
Luigia DeRossi, Sant'Avellina, Italy 1880 Prologue
Full diaries of the women will be available upon publishing
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