Inside each of us is at least one great story. The challenge is to put pen to paper — or fingers to keyboard — and write it. In 2009, after a 20-year career that included marketing, event planning, AIDS activism, and serving as deputy mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, Laurie Fabiano self-published Elizabeth Street, a novel about her Italian immigrant family, on Amazon.

Based on the experiences of her great-grandmother, Elizabeth Street begins in the early 1900s in the small Italian village of Scilla, with the wedding of Giovanna Costa and her cousin, Nunzio, and follows Giovanna and her family as they immigrate to New York City.

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