When Iris decides to move to New York to restart her life, she realizes she underestimated how big the Big Apple really is—all the nostalgic movies set in New York she’d watched with her mom while eating their special secret-recipe gelato didn’t quite do it justice. But Bobby, Iris’s best friend, isn’t about to let her hide away. He drags her to a famous autumn street fair in Little Italy, and as they walk through the food stalls, a little family-run gelateria catches her eye—could it be the same shop that’s in an old photo of her mother’s? Curious, Iris returns the next day and meets the handsome Gio, who tells her that the shop is in danger of… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Parental abandonment
- Intimate partner abuse including emotional abuse and confinement recounted
- Grief & loss depiction
- Relative with memory loss from a stroke mentioned (uncle)
- Death of a mother from cancer recounted
- Death of a wife recounted
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