Angelo is a Catholic priest, Eva is a Jew and Hitler’s army is sweeping throughout Europe, inciting death and destruction.Īlthough Eva and Angelo’s story is fiction, the focus of “From Sand and Ash,” a beautiful and compelling novel by Amy Harmon, the settings and instances surrounding the two aren’t, giving the book a glorious realism that is at times brutally yet compellingly honest. While love between two people in Italy normally wouldn’t be a problem, in this instance it is. Then adulthood hits and they realize their affections have blossomed into something stronger. Unrelated, but raised together since children, Eva and Angelo have regarded each other as siblings, or at least cousins. Her family, country and violin - as well as her best friend, Angelo Bianco - make up the core of her life. "FROM SAND AND ASH," by Amy Harmon, Lake Union Publishing, $14.95, 375 pages (f)īatsheva "Eva" Rosselli has always been an Italian first and a Jew second.
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