The Woman in Red

Diana Giovinazzo

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Giovinazzo, Diana, author.
Title: The woman in red / Diana Giovinazzo.
Description: First edition. | New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019049247 | ISBN 9781538717417 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781538717424 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Garibaldi, Anita, 1821?–1849—Fiction. | Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807–1882—Fiction. | GSAFD: Biographical fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3607.I4686 W66 2020 | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019049247

ISBNs: 978-1-5387-1741-7 (hardcover), 978-1-5387-1742-4 (ebook), 978-1-5387-1743-1 (trade paperback)

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Destiny toys with us with both hands. For my sins, I will pay, as all of us must. More, I think. But I still rejoice in the family she brought me.

—Anita Garibaldi

Prologue

August 1840

Bad omens have followed me all my life. I was born in an unlucky month, under an unlucky moon. “August, the month of sorrow and grief.” It is a saying I know all too well, and it haunts me now as I pick my way through the soulless bodies on a deserted battlefield in the middle of the Brazilian wilderness.