![]() ![]() ![]() As the story opens, both girls learn key information about their roots: Susanna's father, an African-American sailor, contacts the orphanage, having just learned that she exists, and Pina, through a little late-night sleuthing in the head nun's office, learns that her birth mother lives right there in Naples. ![]() Susanna, the main character, is a mulatta (her father is believed to have been an African-American GI), and she thus assumes that no Italian family will ever adopt her her best friend Pina has blonde braids, a slightly rebellious streak, and no information at all about her parentage. Ten years have passed, and many of the girls remain at the orphanage, where they have been raised and educated by the nuns. At the end of World War II, countless babies were deposited on the steps of the Istituto di Gesù Bambino, an orphanage in Naples, Italy. ![]()
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