{"product_id":"9781647427689","title":"Becoming Mariella : A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's unprecedented, even in the twenty-first century, for a young Sicilian woman to defy the centuries-old mandate, 'Family is everything!' - but twenty-two-year-old Mariella Russo is desperate to escape Sicily. She's being relentlessly coerced into an engagement with her wealthy college sweetheart - a young man from a prominent, powerful family - by her envious and erratic mother, who hopes the match will increase her own ignominious social status. Suddenly, Mariella's lifelong home has become a claustrophobic island. In a bid for independence and an attempt to escape entrapment, she flees to San Francisco.  But Mariella's bete noire - entrapment - follows her to San Francisco, where everyone wants more from her than she wants to give. Her American roommate, Leslie, turns out to be a gay man rather than the woman she imagined; her employer\/lover is pressuring her to live with him; and her neurotic mother is haunting her, wreaking havoc and embarrassment. An urgent return trip to Sicily puts Mariella to the ultimate challenge: will she submit to tradition, or choose a life she wants for herself?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"She Writes Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49875991658744,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":37.18,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781647427689-1.jpg?v=1783731155","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9781647427689","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}