Agonizing Circumstances

This memoir novel is a piece of actual history that not only surprised the teller of the tale with its terrifying truths, but also influenced the legal system in this great country of ours.It involves a young Italian girl who finds herself in agonizing circumstances resulting in her going on trial for murder in 1891 in New York City. The impact that this trial had on her and her family reverberated back to her homeland in Salerno, Italy and the vendetta that perpetrated this tale which has lasted for over one hundred years.