Dancing on Sunday Afternoons

The discovery of long hidden love letters leads 35��ear��ld Cara Serafini on a journey to understanding her formidable grandmother Giulia Fiorillo. Dancing on Sunday Afternoons is Giulia's story��unfolding from memories rekindled by the letters Cara reads aloud to her. Born in a mountain village in southern Italy��Giulia arrives in a rough New York immigrant neighborhood at the beginning of the twentieth century��forced from the comforts and constrictions of her family by the fierce drive of her mother. In America��Giulia encounters an inhospitable culture��violence��shattering loss ��and Paolo Serafini��the man who captured her heart and took her dancing on Sunday afternoons. As Cara discovers��it's a love that had never ended ��and never will . . .