From the Premio Strega finalist Silvia Ferreri, five stories about women tested by fate.

Five stories about women who chose to share their experience and start over.

Only when life challenges us, when something breaks and forces us to pick up the pieces, forces us to get back up again and start over, only then can we truly see what we are made of. The heroines of this book were tested by destiny: their carefully built lives, full of love, dreams, family, came down like a house of cards, leaving them naked where it hurt. At some point they all had to ask themselves: what is the right thing to do here? One is Marisa who, to fight back against the ‘ndrangheta, served her life and that of her children on a plate. Marica, waiting for motherhood, sees all her hopes dangling from a thin line. Cristina, betrayed by her beloved Church, is wondering what kind of faith one needs to truly save themselves. Then there is Annarita, trying with all her loving might to take care of a daughter waging war on her own body. Last is Valeria, who fights with incredible strength to reclaim the dreams that fate would have denied her. Five women, five real stories told by Silvia Ferreri, who handles with the same attentive care usually reserved to explosive materials, to bring to light that hard core, hidden yet uncannily strong: that core of who we are in the face of difficulties

«A short, sensitive work with a distinctly feminine slant. ... Ferreri narrates in a dry and sharp style, seemingly immediate but the result of a subtle writing work that will certainly be appreciated. A sparse and direct writing that eliminates the rhetorical aftertaste that the five stories might have and that goes straight to the point, also facilitating the reader's identification». Anita Romanello, Doppiozero

«The Right Things is a "head-on" book about mothers who fight at the cost of flaking every last fiber. ... The right things are not always clear, and almost never easy. Sometimes they ask us to come to terms with our greatest fears. ... But, when they are truly right, they transcend the narrow garden of the self and become productive for the community. They are always fertile, fruitful in values. ... So. With The Right Things Silvia Ferreri delivers an inspiring and victory-filled book». Alessandra Limetti, Alto Adige