The Golden Orrery: Saga of a Sicilian in America

- by Joseph Antinoro-Polizzi The story of an ambitious young man who leaves the service of a Sicilian prince and his true love to find his future and fortune in America,
and of his grandson who, decades later, returns to Sicily to recapture the past.
Set in early to mid-20th century Sicily and America, the major parts of the narrative are sequenced (that is, connected or "hooked") by reference to an unusua1 object ---an orrery---
a mechanical device or model of the planets revolving around the sun.
This period-style literary piece, related in the third person, draws to a surprising conclusion.