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Reviewed on December 1, 2023 | Fiction
Miller's (Radio Life) latest unflinchingly illuminates the traumas that World War II inflicted on civilians in Italy and presents the durability of love and the costs of war. In 1943, Pietro Houdini rescues a 14-year-old girl who has been assaulted and orphaned and takes her to an old abbey called Montecassino. The abbey is a "safe haven in a sea of lava" and an important touchstone in the book....Log In or Sign Up to Read More