Book Talk: Saving the Music by Vincent LoCoco, Presented by Christine Bonnarigo

Saving the Music by Vincent LoCoco
Presenter: Christine Bonnarigo
An historical fiction that takes place during the Holocaust between 1942-1943 in Italy, specifically Sicily. It celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and projects the importance of a moral compass under the worst of conditions.
Christine has been a member of the Historical Society of Fairfield County and The Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center in New York since 2013. She is a graduate of Manhattanville College, has a masters degree from Fordham University with an MS Ed and holds a certificate in Judaism and its Scriptures from Harvard University. Certified to teach English in three states, she created the Literature of the Holocaust Class at New Canaan High School in 2008 which is still being taught today. After retirement from NCHS, she taught Holocaust classes within the religion department at Manhattanville.
She is the recipient of the Susan J. Goldberg Teacher Award from HHREC and shares a second teaching award from The University of Hartford’s Judaic Studies Division.
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