Carolynn Pietrangeli
Historical Biographical Fiction
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Raised between cultures, she has always understood the rules.
Family comes first.
Loyalty is everything.
And some choices are not yours to make.
But as the expectations that once defined her life begin to feel like constraints, she is forced to confront a difficult question: who is she, beyond what others expect her to be?
Family. Culture. Identity.
Carolynn Pietrangeli's debut novel, The Sicilian Daughter follows three generations of women as family secrets unfold and questions of cultural heritage and personal identity come to the surface. It is a story woven with love, struggle, and the complexities of honoring the past while carving out a future of one’s own.
About the Author
Carolynn Pietrangeli
Carolynn Pietrangeli was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, and later moved to Canada to pursue her studies, eventually making it her home. She is a retired university professor of immunology, having taught at McGill University and Brock University.
Now living in Grimsby, Ontario, near Niagara Falls, with her husband, Carolynn draws on a lifelong fascination with memory, identity, and the complexities of the human experience in her writing. Her debut novel, The Sicilian Daughter, explores the ties that bind us to family, the weight of the past, and the search for belonging.
She is currently at work on her next book, continuing to explore the stories that connect us across generations and time.