"Behind Closed Doors: Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily" by Maria Messina; Feminist Press ($19.95) We lose things all the time -- keys, glasses, pens. Some of them seem unimportant (pens) ...

Abortion is contentious in Catholic Italy, particularly in south Over 80% of Sicilian gynaecologists refuse to conduct abortions New regional law requires hospitals to hire willing doctors Opponents ...

as the French soldiers do the Sicilian women. And yet we never lose sight of the politics either. The Duchess Hélène, motivated by revenge for the execution of her brother by the tyrannical governor, ...