THREADS: The Novel

SYNOPSIS: Feisty fourteen-year-old Carmella Barsolino despises her Italian DNA. Her obsession with French fashion, wearing a beret, and putting on a phony accent annoys everyone in her Sicilian family except her secretly gay brother Rocko, who has left their Midwest home to join the Army. Her plan to run away to Canada is thwarted by a family visit to her grandparents’ home across the street from the 1964 New York World’s Fair. After surviving an attempted assault at the fairgrounds, Carmella makes a life-changing dare to her cousins and newfound "bad boy" boyfriend to climb the 140-ft. Unisphere. When her little brother follows, tragedy strikes. Fearful she has committed murder, Carmella attempts to run away to Paris to escape her guilt and fulfill her dream of becoming a fashion designer. Turned back at the airport, she must face her family. Carmella’s Nonna helps her discover, family connection might matter after all.