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Whether you're a reader, writer, book club member, or fellow lover of family stories, I'd love to stay connected.
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Read Seeds of the Pomegranate
A story of family secrets, identity, and the search for belonging.
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Subscribe to Persephone's Story. Weekly reflections on writing, family history, Sicily, hidden histories, and the stories we inherit.
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Events
Join Suzanne Uttaro Samuels for readings, conversations, workshops, and literary events exploring the intersections of history, migration, family memory, Sicily, women’s lives, and the stories official records leave behind.
Through talks, festival appearances, and public conversations, Suzanne invites audiences into the worlds behind her fiction, essays, and historical research — where hidden histories, family stories, and questions of identity continue to echo across generations.
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August 2-29, 2026
Instructor,
From Fragment to Form: Transforming Memory and
Family History
Story Circle Network Online Class
storycircle.org/online-classes
August 9, 2026
Storylines & Bloodlines: Writing the Hidden Family Narrative,
The Sparkle Bookstore
(Sparkhill, NY)—2:00 PM
August 18, 2026
What Gets Recorded, What Gets Lost: Immigration, Power, and Hidden History
Adirondack Voters for Change—
Saranac Lake, NY—6:00 PM
August 20, 2026
Book Signing & Conversation
Saranac Lake Art Walk—5:00-7:30 PM
September 17, 2026
Book Signing & Conversation
Saranac Lake Art Walk—5:00-7:30 PM
September 22, 2026
The Unrecorded City: Writing Brooklyn's Unrecorded Lives
A Brooklyn Bookends Event— 5:30-7
Books Are Magic! 225 Smith Street, Brooklyn (starting point)
November 5-8, 2026
How We Work the Past: Writing the Histories Where We Do Not Belong
Italian American Studies Association—
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Substack: Persephone’s Stories
Persephone’s Stories is Suzanne Uttaro Samuels’ weekly newsletter of personal essays about life, family, writing, marriage, motherhood, travel, aging, reinvention, memory, and the quiet moments that shape who we become.
Some essays begin in Sicily and historical research. Others begin in kitchens, weddings, long conversations, lakeside mornings, departures, grief, joy, or the strange feeling of standing between one season of life and another.
Together, they form an ongoing reflection on storytelling, resilience, love, identity, and the complicated emotional landscapes we move through over time.
Substack: https://suzannesamuels.substack.com/
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Notebooks from Sicily
Notebooks from Sicily is an evolving collection of travel writing, photographs, historical reflections, research notes, and literary observations gathered during Suzanne’s journeys through Sicily and Sardinia.
Moving between past and present, the notebooks trace village streets, convent archives, family histories, sea crossings, forgotten names, marketplaces, ruins, recipes, and fragments of memory that reveal the layered realities of Sicily beyond nostalgia or postcard images.
Part travel journal, part archive, part meditation on migration and belonging, the project explores how place continues to shape identity long after people leave home.
Visit SuzanneSamuels.com to explore upcoming events, workshops, weekly essays from Persephone’s Stories, and ongoing work from Notebooks from Sicily. Subscribe, follow along, and join the conversation about story, memory, migration, and the lives history so often leaves unrecorded.