The Neapolitan Sisters: A Novel of Heritage and Home

2023 International Latino Book Award Winner

A TODAY.COM MOST ANTICIPATED LATINX BOOK OF 2022!

Three sisters. Three vastly different lives. A maelstrom of family secrets. For fans of María Amparo Escandón and Laurie Frankel, Margo Candela pens a riotous, provocative tale of family and sisterhood.

Growing up with a kind but alcoholic father and a suspicious, passive aggressive mother, the Bernal sisters each developed their own way of coping: Dulcina had her art and drugs and alcohol, Claudia plunged into her studies and fled to Princeton, and Maritza watched one Disney movie after another in between devouring romance novels.

Now all grown up, the sisters are reunited at last for Maritza's dream wedding. But they are no less different than they were growing up: Maritza is a princess bridezilla, Claudia is the family "fixer," and Dulcina "Dooley" is finally sober. With all three Bernal sisters back in their East L.A. home, each begins to take steps to come to terms with each other, their parents, and the secrets from their shared past. While their lives may have taken different paths, they are still sisters at heart.

Told in alternating points of view, The Neapolitan Sisters is a humorous yet moving look at what it means to be a sister, daughter, and ultimately, your own self, despite the pressures that come with being part of a family.

Author: Margo Candela
Publisher: Alcove Press
Published: 08/09/2022
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781639100842
ISBN10: 1639100849
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Family Life | Siblings
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino
- Fiction | Feminist

About the Author
Margo Candela was born and raised in Los Angeles and began her writing career when she joined her local community college's student newspaper. The Neapolitan Sisters is her fifth novel and her first after a decade's long hiatus from writing.