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bmanatee_reads 's review for:
Things That Happened Before the Earthquake
by Chiara Barzini
When Eugenia moves to LA with her family from Italy, she is not ready for the transition. A teenage girl who misses everything familiar, she struggles to fit in with the culture and hangs with a myriad of misfits throughout the novel. About halfway through, Eugenia takes a summer vacation in Sicily, and new characters are introduced. This section of the novel makes the story feel disconnected. Eventually she begins to grow up back in LA and become a young woman not afraid to follow her dreams and interests in the US. Thank you, netgalley, for the chance to read the ARC.