Description: Amity Street, the sequel to Kitty Burns Florey's 2012 novel The Writing Master, which took place in New Haven in 1856, moves ahead 35 years: it is now 1892. Anna Felice, a wealthy former opera star, travels from Rome, Italy, to America-to Manhattan, to New Haven, finally to Amherst, Massachusetts-in search of the truth about her birth.
Brief description: Kitty Burns Florey is the author of twelve novels as well as many essays and short stories. She is best known for her two offbeat works of nonfiction, Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences and Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting, and for the novels Souvenir of Cold Springs and Solos. Born in Syracuse, she has lived in Boston, Brooklyn, and New Haven.