“Di Pietrantonio (A Sister Story) offers a gut-wrenching excavation of generational trauma rooted in a 1992 double homicide in the Apennine mountains of central Italy. Lucia, a physiotherapist, has lived her whole life near the now abandoned alpine campground still owned by her father, Rocco, where the murders took place decades earlier. Her 20-year-old daughter, Amanda, has left for college in Milan, but when the Covid-19 pandemic forces her back home, she stops studying and keeps to her room... Di Pietrantonio doles out the details of the crime, the reasons for the friends’ rupture, and the cause of Amanda’s withdrawal, revealing striking parallels between mother and daughter. In crystalline prose, this contemplative novel offers a subtle but piercing meditation on the complex dynamics between parents and children.”
Read the full starred review in Publishers Weekly.
