"She hadn't written about others' adventures, but had lived her own, which gave way to ours. She and all those millions of immigrants--your family included--who had come to make their lives and the lives of their children better." Stapinski's incredible detective work, against all odds, uncovers the real story of her great-great-great-grandmother, Vita Galitelli, rumored to have come to the U.S. after a murder.