One Good Thing

＂1941, Emilia Romagna. Lili and Esti have been best friends since meeting at the University of Ferrara; when Esti’s son Theo is born, they become as close as sisters. There is a war being fought across borders, and in Italy, Mussolini’s Racial Laws have deemed Lili and Esti descendants of an ’inferior’ Jewish race, but life somehow goes on--until Germany invades northern Italy, and the friends find themselves in occupied territory. Esti, older and fiercely self-assured, convinces Lili to flee first to a villa in the countryside to help hide a group of young war orphans, then to a convent in Florence, where they pose as nuns and forge false identification papers for the Underground. When disaster strikes at the convent, a critically wounded Esti asks Lili to take a much bigger step: to go on the run with Theo＂--

When Georgia Hunter was fifteen years old, she learned that she came from a family of Holocaust survivors. Her first novel, We Were the Lucky Ones, was born of her quest to uncover her family’s staggering history. A New York Times bestseller, the book has been published in twenty foreign editions and adapted as a Hulu limited series. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and their two young sons. One Good Thing is her second novel.