Sola: Hollywood, McCarthyism, and a Motherless Childhood Abroad

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SOLA: Hollywood, McCarthyism, and a Motherless Childhood Abroad by Julietta Appleton

In the midst of a successful Hollywood career, Julietta Appleton’s father is “crushed like a bug” by McCarthyism and the Red Scare during the early years of the Cold War.

Coupled with her mother’s sudden death, young Julietta exists in a world where she doesn’t ever quite fit.

Un-American. Unmothered. Untethered.

While living in ex-pat communities of artists and writers across Europe — from Italy to Ibiza to the Canary Islands — and upon returning to the US, Julietta searches for a place to belong, a place where she can be heard, and a place to call home.

A story of love, loss, and a woman’s search for herself.

SOLA: Hollywood, McCarthyism, and a Motherless Childhood Abroad by Julietta Appleton

In the midst of a successful Hollywood career, Julietta Appleton’s father is “crushed like a bug” by McCarthyism and the Red Scare during the early years of the Cold War.

Coupled with her mother’s sudden death, young Julietta exists in a world where she doesn’t ever quite fit.

Un-American. Unmothered. Untethered.

While living in ex-pat communities of artists and writers across Europe — from Italy to Ibiza to the Canary Islands — and upon returning to the US, Julietta searches for a place to belong, a place where she can be heard, and a place to call home.

A story of love, loss, and a woman’s search for herself.