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DONNA NUCCI Author, Nurse, Listener
“Every family keeps a secret. Ours took seven generations of women to tell.”
Lisa Armstrong, 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.
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A single copper penny.
A century of secrets.
The Penny, a family saga following
seven generations of Italian-American women
from Lena, who leaves Italy pregnant at 17, to Lisa,
a post-9/11 tech visionary who preserves memory through sound.
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"My lips forgot their pieties and remembered only the taste of him." —
Luigia DeRossi, Sant'Avellina, 1880
Full diaries of the women will be available upon publishing
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