
In America
2016 Chanticleer Media's Chatelaine Book Awards Finalist
Beautiful, headstrong Marcella Scimenti has the affection of a handsome neighborhood boy, the love of her large Italian family, and serious dreams of singing in Hollywood. But the course of true love—nor the journey to finding one’s true self—never did run smooth. In America follows the story of Marcella, the daughter of the characters at the center of Nina Romano’s continent-spanning Wayfarer Trilogy, as she comes of age in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, in the late 1920s. In the trilogy’s heartwarming conclusion, Marcella must learn to balance new friendships, promising suitors, and life as a modern working girl with the expectations of her tradition-bound family, all against the backdrop of a looming economic depression and a changing world. Along the way, she unearths a devastating family secret that shakes her to her core and tests the boundaries of her love, loyalty, and faith.
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Book details
- Author
- Nina Romano
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Fiction › Romance › Historical › 20th Century
Fiction › Historical
Fiction › Romance › Historical - Topics
- historical romance · Italian American family · 1920s Brooklyn · coming of age · immigrant experience · love and ambition · working women
- ISBN-13
- 9781630269111 (Paperback)9781681623832 (Hardcover)
About the author
NINA ROMANO earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Florida International University and has authored a short story collection, five poetry collections, and two poetry chapbooks. Her recent books include In America, Westward: Guided by Starfalls and Moonbows, and The Secret Language of Women.
Romano has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. The Secret Language of Women received the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Award gold medal.
When she’s not writing, Romano draws on more than twenty years of living in Rome and fluency in Italian and Spanish. Much of her fiction and poetry reflects her deep engagement with history and her experience as a world traveler.
Nina lives in the United States.




