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Mary Doria Russell

Biography

Mary Doria Russell

Widely praised for her meticulous research, fine prose and compelling narrative drive, Mary Doria Russell is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of THE SPARROW, CHILDREN OF GOD, A THREAD OF GRACE, DREAMERS OF THE DAY, DOC, EPITAPH and THE WOMEN OF THE COPPER COUNTRY. Dr. Russell holds a PhD in biological anthropology. She lives in Lyndhurst, Ohio.

Mary Doria Russell

Books by Mary Doria Russell

by Mary Doria Russell - Fiction, Historical Fiction

It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it becomes overnight an open battleground among the Nazis, the Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italian civilians trying to survive.