ASIN: B078SBYB86
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 401
"Webster creatively mixes historical storytelling with a personal story... the first-person narration is original and compelling!" The BookLife Prize, June 2018One More Moon is the extraordinary true story of a woman and her family’s often harrowing experiences in the years before and during World War II. Written using her words, Goodreads Choice Nominee Ralph Webster recounts his grandmother’s desperate journey from Naples, Italy to America - after Mussolini betrays Italy's Jews and joins with Hitler - and as countries across the world close their doors to Jewish refugees fleeing the spread of Nazi evil.In 1934, at age fifty-one, Elsa’s comfortable life in Mussolini’s Fascist Italy changes remarkably when she and her reluctant husband Paul purchase the Pensione Alexandria, a rundown guesthouse overlooking the Mediterranean in Naples. Though German Jews, they are embraced by their ...
