The Significance of my Trilogy and why it Matters
by Carmela Cattuti When I started writing my first novel, Between the Cracks, it was narrowly focused on my great aunt's experience of the 1908 earthquake in Messina and subsequent immigration to America, The Ascent was a continuation of that story. The final novel in the trilogy, The Benevolence of New Ideas, deals with the protagonist's, Angela, influence on the third generation of Americans. I learned many lessons from my great aunt, but I think the most important was pers
