{"product_id":"2940011184390","title":"Made in Italy, Loved in America","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiovanna, a strong-willed Italian beauty, comes from a dirt-poor family.She meets Lorenzo, a member of a wealthy, upper-class family. She wants to marry him and escape her poverty; he wants sex. The two begin a fiery relationship where the desires of each can be satisfied. When his mother discovers her son's forbidden love, she forces him to end the relationship with the low-class illiterate puttana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore disgrace follows Giovanna when her subsequent engagement to a local laborer is broken. To compound her pain, a cholera epidemic takes her parents' lives soon after the breakup. With nothing left in Italy,Giovanna sets out for America to marry a man she never met, in a marriage arranged on her father's deathbed. Her pint-sized fiancé, Arturo is a wealthy contractor who likes to abuse women, but Giovanna refuses to be dishonored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe flees her nightmarish fiancé and travels to Massachusetts, even though she has no money and speaks no English. Once there, she meets Domenico, a 21-year-old immigrant from Italy. They begin a life together, but it is soon clouded by betrayal and doubt. A heavenly intervention suddenly changes things for the better…or so they think.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fideli Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177002811632,"sku":"2940011184390","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011184390_p0.jpg?v=1763547886","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011184390","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}