Based in the as-yet-untold story of Newfoundland soldiers in Italy during the Second World War, The Saltbox Olive is an evocative tale of the complex interactions between past and present told through one woman’s search for the truth of her family’s mysterious past.
When Caroline Fisher studied art in Florence in the mid-1990s, trying unsuccessfully to finagle a way to live there for the rest of her days, she was unaware of her family’s history in Italy—how her grandfather had travelled the same streets and railway lines she did, or how her great-uncle Arch
