The Women of Saturn Paperback – April 9 2017

"The story captivated me from the opening sentence where the heroine of the novel, Cathy Anastasia, recalls how she imagined life through the filter of black-and-white post-war Italian films. The Women of Saturn continues the saga of The Girls of Piazza d'Amore with the precocious Caterina's voyage to Canada and her coming of age in Montreal, her translation there into the woman, Cathy. Connie Guzzo-McParland has produced a literary novel that is also a page-turner; Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels meet Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women."
--Mary di Michele

"An unusual blend of charm, nostalgia, and grit, Connie Guzzo-McParland's bittersweet bildungsroman, The Women of Saturn, reprises characters from her debut novella The Girls of Piazza d'Amore. Authentic in its evocation of mid-twentieth century Italian Montreal, the novel's preoccupations with domestic violence, cynical politics, and organized crime resonate with topical relevance for contemporary readers. Richly textured and panoramic, The Women of Saturn is an engrossing read."
--Elaine Kalman Naves, author of The Book of Faith

"Connie Guzzo-McParland's new novel, The Women of Saturn, is a stirring consideration of culture and politics, of loyalty and loss that is as wide as it is deep, as ambitious as it is intimate. The emphasis, here, may be on three generations of Italian Montrealers, but this is also a story of immigration, one that never ends, as Guzzo-McParland writes. It just comes back around. The Women of Saturn gives us circles within circles. Brava!"
--Joel Yanofsky, author of Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism