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Braintree Writer Turns Grandmother's Immigration Story into Novel
Cicada's Choice is the first in a series of novels about a young woman leaving Greece for the United States.
When Nitsa Olivadoti was growing up in Braintree, her grandmother would sit her and her sisters and cousins down at the kitchen table, turn on the radio and tell stories about Greece, living through World War II and her journey to the United States.
Olivadoti began taking notes when she was just nine years old, and writing poetry and stories about her grandmother's life. Later, after exploring her artistic side in college,
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