Finalist, 2026 LGBTQ+ International Book Awards (LGBTQ+ Category)
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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:
“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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Gaia is an internationally recognized Ph.D. and novelist who combines scientific rigor with the empathy of a storyteller.