An Italian Adventure

Gender identity. Italy. Family. Memoir.

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Genres

Women's Adventure, Based on a True Story, Humor Fiction, Fictional Memoir, Own Voices, Coming of Age, LGBT Fiction, Historical, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Profanity and Abuse

Type of Ending

Series

The Italian Saga — Book 1

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Amazon

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Number of days to read

Publication Date

Mar 3, 2026

Page Length

244 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

An Italian Adventure

Gender identity. Italy. Family. Memoir.

Advance Reader Copy

Blurb

1980s Italy: A shameful secret forces a tomboy and her bully to begrudgingly ally…

An adult magazine at eight?! A summer of secrets in 1980s Italy.

Leda is a devout tomboy whose carefully ordered world is shaken on the eve of her First Confession. When her nemesis, a Sicilian transplant named Nico, shares the startling discovery of an adult magazine, a firestorm of shame triggers questions about an identity Leda doesn't yet have a name for.

Yet, when fate forces the two outcasts together, both frenemies find a rare kinship in each other’s darkness, fighting to uncover their own truths in a cultural landscape of silence and hypocrisy.

Why you'll love An Italian Adventure:

Vivid Setting: Experience the contradiction-filled beauty of Northern Italy and Italian culture.
Own Voices: A poignant exploration of nonbinary identity and gender based on the life of the author Gaia B Amman, Ph.D.
Emotional Resonance: A humorous, moving, and addictive story of unlikely kinships and resilience.

Nonbinary Anne of Green Gables meets the Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

Based on a true story, this is the first volume of The Italian Saga.

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