A Year and a Day

Join Ornella Dallavalle, an idealistic and talented young mathematics teacher fresh from Italy, as she ventures into the mean streets of New York City and finds a job teaching a diverse class of students struggling to achieve their goals, despite impoverished and chaotic backgrounds. Ornella experiences many memorable encounters and deals with the strange bureaucratic ways of the New York City public school system. She learns to cope with life in the Big Apple, around the time of the tragic events of 11 September 2001. Well-written, fun and absorbing, it's an unforgettable adventure of culture shock and a foreign girl in the big city!