Laurie Fabiano was born and raised in USA, but descended from of proudly Italian family. She is a writer engaged for decades in the non-profit world and organizes events, such as cultural festivals and important national celebrations, such as the July 4th parade in New York. At the end of the 80s she organizes in first person several fundraisings, moved by pain for the loss of one of her family members. Her purpose is to help thousands of deaths caused by the disease of that moment: AIDS. For some years she has been the president of Fab Tool, a company that deals with marketing and events.
Laurie Fabiano grew up in a proudly Italian family and loves everything that has the same origins. In 2006 she published the novel “Elizabeth Street – from Scilla to New York”, based on the true story f her great- grandmother Giovanna Costa and her experience of Italian migrant in the early 1920s. Elizabeth Street is a Little Italy district street in Manhattan, where apartments complexes, mainly inhabited by proudly Italian immigrants, arose between 1919 and 1920. Her great-grandmother Giovanna Costa comes from the town of Scilla, a few kilometres from Reggio Calabria. The earthquake and tsunami of Messina in 1908, destroyed the villages of the Calabrian coast (including Scilla) and the Sicilian coast, leaving behind mourning and family tragedies. Giovanna decides to look for her fortune in faraway USA and moves to New York, more precisely in the district of Little Italy.
Giovanna leaves her land, rich in sounds and colours, but devastated by poverty and by the impossibility of being able to generate wealth, to live in a city overseas at the height of its economic and demographic growth.
In America she meets Rocco Siena and gives birth to a little girl, Angelina. Giovanna manages to raise a strong and big proudly Italian family. Her tenacity allows her to set up a business able to attract the attention of the Black Hand, a brutal criminal organization of Italian-American loan sharks. Giovanna does not let herself be intimidated by their attacks and manages to protect her most precious asset: her family.
We recommend reading this beautiful tale, taken from a true history and visiting the places of origin of Giovanna, the protagonist of this novel, with the tours Castles on the Violet Coast and The Violet Coast. Meanwhile you can read the articles about Scilla: The king of the Violet Coast, Monster Scylla, Little Southern Venice. We are waiting for you!!!