They survived New York. The West would be a different kind of fight.

When the Licata family trades Brooklyn's tenements for the open skies of Cheyenne, Wyoming, they bring with them everything Sicilian immigrants carry: stubbornness, faith, and the memory of home.

The early twentieth century does not go easy on the Licatas. Children are buried. The Spanish Flu takes what war hasn't. Prohibition turns neighbors into criminals and criminals into kings. And when World War II arrives, being Italian in America means living under a shadow of suspicion that no amount of loyalty can fully lift.

At the center of it all is Maria, the girl who crossed an ocean to find her father, now the woman holding a family together across decades of loss. Her faith deepens. Her hard-won literacy becomes her weapon. She keeps her illness to herself.

Her husband, Baldassare, works honestly and watches others get rich. His brother Nick finds another way, and the choices Nick makes will ripple through generations.

Based on the true story of the author's Sicilian family, The Scent of Lemons, Part Two: The Far West is a novel about what it costs to belong to a country and what it means to belong to each other.