Openwork

In "Openwork," the compelling new novel from Adria Bernardi, three generations of closely related Italian families illustrate the interconnectedness of life. Imola Bartolai lives a troubled life in a mountain village in northern Italy.her favorite brother, Egidio, seeks out a new life in the coal mines of New Mexico in America. Then, when an accident silences Egidio, this childhood friends, Antenore Gimorri, becomes a passionate advocate for labor rights in the wakeof the tragedy. Gimorri raises three sons in Chicago, and it is his granddaughter, Adele, who closes the circle by traveling to Italy in search of her family's roots.