The Woman in Red by Diana Giovinazzo

Author:Diana Giovinazzo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2020-08-03T16:00:00+00:00

Part Three

Uruguay

Twenty-Six

February 1841

We weren’t sure what to do, but then José burst into our cabin one bright morning while I was trying to appease our angry child. “You’ll never believe it. People from every region of the fatherland are living in Montevideo, and guess what they are calling themselves, guess!”

I was pacing, gently bouncing Menotti, who was teething, in my arms. I turned to José, prepared to make a sarcastic response, but his exuberant smile stopped me. He looked happier than he had in ages. “Tell me, husband, what are they calling themselves?”

“They are calling themselves Italians. Do you understand? They are gathering together from all over the peninsula. It’s not Tuscany versus Umbria or Calabria versus Basilicata. They are unifying of their own accord.” He turned me to face him. “If they are unifying in Uruguay, this means they can unify at home. It’s happening, Anita, there will be an Italy.”

My husband didn’t need to say the words for me to know what he meant. Leave Brazil. As I looked into my husband’s hopeful eyes, a million questions filled my head. Brazil was everything to me, but then I thought about my father and the words that he had said to me so long ago. There was more to the world than my little island.

Brazil was the fabric that shaped me, but that fabric was now tattered, worn from the war. There was no way that my little family could have a life of peace in my home country. The Imperial government made sure of that. There was more to the world than my little island. “There is more to this world than Brazil,” I said to my husband. “It’s time we go to Uruguay.”

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