My go-to genre: an epic, lifelong story of struggle, survival and living. Bonus points for immigration themes. I loved this way more than I thought I would. Stella Fortuna made me cry, made me laugh, made me want to kill certain characters. This book follows 100 years of Stella’s life, a lot of it incredibly hard. While this is fiction, I totally believe there are women who have walked in Stella’s shoes. Her father was a dirtbag and if I was Stella, I would have taken a baseball bat to his head