Juliet Grames’ new novel, The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia, follows 27-year-old Francesca, an American of Italian-Danish heritage who moves to the remote town of Santa Chionia in Southern Calabria to open a non-profit funded nursery school.
But trouble arrives when she does, as a catastrophic flood reveals long-buried human remains, and none of the locals claim to know anything about it.
It’s a mystery packed with intricate family secrets, interconnected family trees, danger, and vivid country-Italian culture.
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The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia was published by Knopf.
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