Adriana Nardi is only ten years old when Allied forces occupy her lush island home during World War II, plaguing the quiet Italian village with violence and uncertainty.
Amdu is a Senegalese soldier who abandons his comrades and befriends Adriana after witnessing an unspeakable act that has far-reaching repercussions.

Years later, on a commuter train bound for Penn Station, sixty-year-old Adriana revisits her memories of the war and her doomed relationship with Amdu, even as a present crisis threatens her life.

About the Author
Joanna Scott is the author of nine books, including The Manikin, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Lannan Award.

Reviews
Deeply moving, Joanna Scott brilliantly captures war as seen through the innocence of a child * Bookpage *
An affecting, unsentimental portrait of a survivor taking stock of her life and loves * #NAME? *
In Liberation, Scott pulls off kaleidoscopic shifts of observation with a depth of vision possessed by great writers...Scott is in full control of folly and tragedy in a world she has painstakingly researched and brilliantly imagined * Los Angeles TIMES BOOK REVIEW *



Book Information
ISBN 9780316018890
Author Joanna Scott
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Little, Brown & Company
Publisher Little, Brown & Company