I Before E (The Elba Trilogy Book 3)

i before e, except by the sea, where when drowning I may, find padre. Padre! The third novel in the Elba trilogy, I Before E tells the story of Paolo Viglietti, a young Italian-American immigrant whose desperate struggle to understand his father’s drowning triggers a turbulent coming of age—one that ultimately leads him back to Italy to confront the family mysteries he's grappled with his entire life. Set between 1986 and 2000, I Before E follows Paolo's journey from his suffocating childhood in Little Italy (New York City), to his teenage liberation in the West Village, to his college escape to UC Berkeley, and finally to his return to Italy and search for answers in Rome, Padua, and his hometown of Portoferraio, Elba. Though I Before E stands alone as an independent novel, readers of Able Was I and Ere I Saw Elba will recognize familiar faces as the threads of the trilogy weave together to explore themes of childhood trauma, exile, and forgiveness. View Less