Persephone's Stories
Suzanne Uttaro SamuelsPersephone's Stories uncovers the journeys of those who have faced profound challenges, loss, and disillusionment but have still managed to find hope and meaning.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 90 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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Week 4: Partanna, Unfinished
I thought I had more time.
A few more days in Partanna, to wander the piazza and have one more pistachio gelato.
Another walk to Castle Grifeo, to gaze at the dazzling Belice Valley below.
Another chance to revisit the house where Mimi I...
Sicily Notebook #3: The Persistence of Unfinished Things
It was a tacked-on stop to an overcrowded itinerary.
Fourteen years ago, I visited Sicily with my mother, son, and nephew through a company that promised a Grand Tour of the island.
We’d just finished the “Anti-Mafia Tour” at Corleone,...
Sicily Notebook #2: The Rules for Travel
I’ve been traveling this week. Saranac Lake to Boston to Sardinia to Sicily.
When I planned this trip, I thought I’d considered everything. An academic conference in Sardinia, where I’d talk about immigration and my work as a novelist, fol...
Sicily Notebook #1
Six weeks in Sicily and Sardinia: archives, village streets, foundling histories, family records, and the making of The Orphans’ Wheel, a historical novel inspired by erased identities and hidden lives in western Sicily.
I’m writing this f...
The Wheel Turned
I’m back in the Adirondacks, enlarging blurred municipal pages from Partanna on my laptop. At first, the nineteenth-century handwriting seems impossible. Then suddenly the words emerge: nella casa ove è affissa la ruota—the house where the...
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Award-winning novelist and essayist. Author of Seeds of the Pomegranate (Sibylline Press, 2025). Join Persephone's Stories for stories of people who defy the odds and rise above adversity.
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