The Fortunate Pilgrim

About this book

Lucia Santa came to New York from the mountain farms of Italy because she knew there had to be a better life. But what she finds in the streets of Hells Kitchen is a life to break a strong womans heart. Two tragic marriages six children to support by herself a fiery-hearted daughter who insists on living and loving as an American an oldest son who gets involved with the mafia. And through it all Lucia Santa--wife widow mother grandmother--endures as a woman of incomparable dignity courage and passion. Filled with laughter and tears fury and forgiveness The Fortunate Pilgrim is a spellbinding portrait of a family determined to survive in America. It is a novel that only Mario Puzo could have written.