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An eighteen-year-old woman named Franca Viola made history in 1966 as one of the first “#metoo†heroines of modern times, when she refused to go along with a centuries-old forcible marriage custom in Sicily. Having endured kidnap and rape, she publicly defied the expectation that she would marry the rapist to “restore her broken honor.†A social uproar occurred throughout the island ― and beyond.
In Natalie Galli’s The Girl Who Said No, Viola’s remarkable story unfolds when the author arrives in Palermo to search for this brave heroine, with little more than the memory of a tiny article she had spotted two decades prior. Galli wanted to know whatever had become of this courageous girl who had overturned an ancient, entrenched tradition?
The riveting events after Franca pressed charges with the police form the core of this gripping memoir. Viola was subjected to public taunting whenever she appeared on the streets of her town; Mafia-orchestrated bullying threatened her entire family. Galli traced the dramatic tale to its conclusion, in spite of initial warnings from her own relatives not to break the Sicilian code of silence.
Throughout her search for the enigmatic Franca, Galli shares her own poignant and hilarious observations about a vibrant culture steeped in contradictions and paradoxes. Does she succeed in locating the elusive proto-feminist whose case forever changed Italian culture and history? Travel along on Galli’s engaging odyssey to find out.
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"In between the lines of this enchanting, refined portrait of Italy’s enigmatic three-cornered island, I discovered healing answers to haunting questions of my own Sicilian heritage. I virtually tasted my roots, and the cannolis, through Galli's evocative prose. Yet the most profound gift was finding a sister in the courageous Franca Viola, who made history in 1966 when, after enduring kidnap and rape, she refused to go along with the centuries-old custom of forcible marriage to the perpetrator. The “no†spoken by Viola echoes in the heart as a most significant turning point in world history, and will surely remind us of the exquisite joy in our own personal turning point marked by the use of the word, or perhaps shed light on the necessity to take the blissful step of standing up to any reflection of ourself who sees another as less than, for this is the sole portal to knowing loving union in human life. "The Girl Who Said No" is a work of world-class journalism and literature that inspires readers to challenge culturally conditioned notions of fate so they too may realize the true love that is their birthright and destiny. Galli's painstaking journey to unearth the story behind Viola's "no" is just as astonishing as the story itself—the potent combination of these inextricably interwoven tales leaves the heart in a state of utter "yes.""
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- In between the lines of this enchanting, refined portrait of Italy’s enigmatic three-cornered island, I discovered healing answers to haunting questions of my own Sicilian heritage. I virtually tasted my roots, and the cannolis, through Galli's evocative prose. Yet the most profound gift was finding a sister in the courageous Franca Viola, who made history in 1966 when, after enduring kidnap and rape, she refused to go along with the centuries-old custom of forcible marriage to the perpetrator. The “no†spoken by Viola echoes in the heart as a most significant turning point in world history, and will surely remind us of the exquisite joy in our own personal turning point marked by the use of the word, or perhaps shed light on the necessity to take the blissful step of standing up to any reflection of ourself who sees another as less than, for this is the sole portal to knowing loving union in human life. "The Girl Who Said No" is a work of world-class journalism and literature that inspires readers to challenge culturally conditioned notions of fate so they too may realize the true love that is their birthright and destiny. Galli's painstaking journey to unearth the story behind Viola's "no" is just as astonishing as the story itself—the potent combination of these inextricably interwoven tales leaves the heart in a state of utter "yes."
