What are You Reading? What are You Writing? ep. 347 with Angela Page Conti

Award-winning author Karen E. Osborne welcomes back writer and film producer Angela Page Conti to discuss Enrico G, her sweeping new historical novel inspired by the extraordinary life of her Italian great-grandfather.

Spanning Italy and New York from the 1870s through the aftermath of World War II, Enrico G explores immigration, ambition, family, prejudice, identity, love, and the moral choices people make in extraordinary circumstances.

Karen and Angela discover common ground in writing fiction inspired by their own families—Angela with Enrico G and Karen with True Grace. They discuss the discrimination Italian immigrants encountered in America, the remarkable women who helped shape Enrico's life, what Angela came to admire about a great-grandfather she knew through family history, and how his unforgettable resistance to the Nazis earned him the description "the culinary murderer."

It's a lively conversation about the history we inherit, the stories families preserve, and what happens when a novelist begins asking what lies behind them.

Watch or listen and join us for a fascinating conversation about family, history, identity, and the complicated people whose lives helped shape our own.

https://youtu.be/SdQ-w9CLhSE