Anita, Anita: Garibaldi of the New World

by Dorothy Bryant

Book by Bryant, Dorothy

300 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Dorothy Bryant was born in San Francisco in 1930, second daughter of Joe and Giuditta Calvetti, both born in Balangero, a factory town near Turin, Italy, and brought to the United States as children. Bryant became the first in her family to graduate from college, and she earned her living teaching (high school and college) until 1976. She began writing in 1960 and has since published a dozen books of fiction and non-fiction. Her plays have been performed in the Bay Area and beyond.

Bryant is known for her mystical, feminist and fantastic novels and plays that traverse the space between the real world and her character's inner psyche or soul. Her book The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You was described by Alice Walker as "One of my favorite books in all the world".

Reviews

[Eva · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is the love story of Giuseppe Garibaldi and Anita Ribeiro de Duarte. Anita was certainly a woman before her time--leaving her husband and family to be with Garbaldi, fighting by his side, having his children, etc. She did all this as they traipsed across South America and Italy. The author did a great job in weaving history into fiction. This is a great book for those who love historical fiction.