{"product_id":"the-girl-who-said-no-a-search-in-sicily-paperback","title":"The Girl Who Said No: A Search in Sicily - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNatalie Galli\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn eighteen-year-old woman named Franca Viola made history in 1966 as one of the first \"#metoo\" heroines of modern times, when she refused to go along with a centuries-old forcible marriage custom in Sicily. Having endured kidnap and rape, she publicly defied the expectation that she would marry the rapist to \"restore her broken honor.\" A social uproar occurred throughout the island ― and beyond. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In Natalie Galli's \u003ci\u003eThe Girl Who Said No\u003c\/i\u003e, Viola's remarkable story unfolds when the author arrives in Palermo to search for this brave heroine, with little more than the memory of a tiny article she had spotted two decades prior. Galli wanted to know: whatever had become of this courageous girl who had overturned an ancient, entrenched tradition? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The riveting events after Franca pressed charges with the police form the core of this gripping memoir. Viola was subjected to public taunting whenever she appeared on the streets of her town; Mafia-orchestrated bullying threatened her entire family. Galli traced the dramatic tale to its conclusion, in spite of initial warnings from her own relatives not to break the Sicilian code of silence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Throughout her search for the enigmatic Franca, Galli shares her own poignant and hilarious observations about a vibrant culture steeped in contradictions and paradoxes. Does she succeed in locating the elusive proto-feminist whose case forever changed Italian culture and history? Travel along on Galli's engaging odyssey to find out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatalie Galli, a San Francisco native of Italian background, has penned two illustrated children's books for Sunbath Studios: \u003ci\u003eCiao Meow\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSpin The Hound Lost and Found, A Tale of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake\u003c\/i\u003e. She edited a third Sunbath Studios publication: \u003ci\u003eLeeLee The Lizard Wants A Pizza\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writings have been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eItaly, A Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e and in four volumes of Travelers' Tales, three of which were awarded gold and silver prizes by the Bay Area Travel Writers. She has worked as an editor and proofreader for Burning Books, as a columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Berkeley Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, and as a freelance contributor to the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760375824672,"sku":"9781609521721","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/58b6d0867debf795f2fd4804ca26845e_196bb7cf-dbfe-402e-9c14-9ed776789ade.webp?v=1780178461","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-girl-who-said-no-a-search-in-sicily-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}