Looking for Alibrandi is about a seventeen year old girl named Josephine Alibrandi. Her mother Christina had her out of wed-lock at a young age. She experiences turmoil because of her over baring grandmother Nonna who is afraid of change and tries to protect Josephine from the new world, Christina is a woman caught between her mother and daughter but she just wants Josephine to be her self and not be tied down by the Italian bonds she was.
Josephine is becoming closer to her grandmother Nonna. Once Nonna starts to tell Josephine about her past, Josephine starts to become interested in learning more and more about her grandmother. I think she started to realize that she is a lot like her grandmother was at her age.