The Family: A Read with Jenna Pick (Unabridged)
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3.9 • 62 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
The Instant New York Times bestseller
A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself.
Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate.
Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever observing the world around her. Best friends since birth, they live in the shadow of their fathers’ unspoken community: the Family. Sunday dinners gather them each week to feast, discuss business, and renew the intoxicating bond borne of blood and love.
But the disappearance of Antonia’s father drives a whisper-thin wedge between the girls as they grow into women, wives, mothers, and leaders. Their hearts expand in tandem with Red Hook and Brooklyn around them, as they push against the boundaries of society’s expectations and fight to preserve their complex but life-sustaining friendship. One fateful night their loyalty to each other and the Family will be tested. Only one of them can pull the trigger before it’s too late.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Set in World War II–era New York City, this historical novel explores women’s roles in the deeply masculine world of organized crime. Childhood friends Sofia Colicchio and Antonia Russo are bonded by their families’ attachment to the Brooklyn branch of the Mafia. As they grow up to be very different women, Sofia and Antonia struggle with the expectations of both the criminal and law-abiding worlds they inhabit. Naomi Krupitsky’s powerful debut offers an unflinching new spin on a genre previously defined by male-driven stories like The Godfather and The Sopranos, showing how the desire for power—and the violence needed to gain and keep it—wounds everyone involved. Actress Marin Ireland gives each fascinating character their own immediately identifiable voice, immersing us in an extraordinary world. The Family is a thrilling, heart-wrenching story of loyalty and sisterhood.
Customer Reviews
Annoyingly descriptive, and slow
This story moved so slow, and everything, in every room, in every scene, was painfully over described with a little plot line and dialogue in between.