{"product_id":"home-elsewhere-marianne-rutter-9798218064686","title":"Home Elsewhere","description":"It is the fall of 1942 and \u003cb\u003eGiampaolo Stagno\u003c\/b\u003e is starving. A soldier in the beleaguered Italian Army, the young Sicilian is captured and shipped from North Africa to the United States as a prisoner of war, assigned to a POW camp in New Jersey. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA hundred miles from the camp, in Pennsylvania, \u003cb\u003eEleanor Fazzio \u003c\/b\u003eis also starving-for a different life. She\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eworks in a textile mill and returns home each day to her mother and cousins and their close-knit Italian-American immigrant community. War has limited the possibilities for a thirty-year-old woman in Eleanor's corner of America, and she longs for another kind of life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGiampaolo and Eleanor know nothing of each other, though they share the customs and dialect of their island homeland, Sicily. Fate conspires to bring the couple together: their common heritage, shaped thousands of miles apart, forges a tentative bond between them. But the vagaries of a world war and its aftermath drive them apart, thrusting the pair into an uncertain future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marianne Rutter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8218064680\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798218064686\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Marianne Rutter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.03d","brand":"Marianne Rutter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44079077458175,"sku":"9798218064686","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a19830a-bf02-43b6-82db-5836c391abe5.jpg?v=1685479166","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/home-elsewhere-marianne-rutter-9798218064686","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}