An Italian Adventure: It Will All Make (Less) Sense When You Grow Up

1980s, Northern Italy, Arese, a small town in a patchwork of fields.

Leda won't wear a stinking dress for her First Communion--not like Jesus cares, right?

But Nico does--the Sicilian bully with his stupid dirty mag...

Now Mom wants to kill her, Leda's buddies are wary of her, and she has to confess to a Catholic priest that she, Leda Balni, a bookish girl of ten, has a dirty magazine on her conscience.
How?

The only certain thing... Nico will pay.

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