{"id":523149,"date":"2025-10-23T21:48:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/523149\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T21:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:48:21","slug":"san-francisco-history-abounds-at-book-launch-for-covert-buccaneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/523149\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco history abounds at book launch for &#8216;Covert Buccaneer&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco attorney S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour shared details about her extremely personal debut historical novel at a festive book launch at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club in North Beach on Wednesday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Describing the newly released <strong>\u201cThe Covert Buccaneer\u201d (Pactum Factum Press, 388 pages, Oct. 13, 2025),<\/strong> which is based on a family manuscript she\u00a0discovered\u00a0in a trunk, St. Amour said, \u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0a spectacular story, just like \u2018The Count of Monte Cristo.\u2019 However, the women are missing. I had to rewrite the book and put the women in.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-167735\" data-id=\"167735\" data-aspect-ratio=\"768 \/ 1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LuciaStAmourBook.jpg\"  \/>S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour shares information about her personal and highly researched historical novel \u201cThe Covert Buccaneer\u201d<br \/>\nat the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club. (Leslie Katz\/Bay City News) <\/li>\n<li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"878\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-167733\" data-id=\"167733\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1024 \/ 878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LuciaStAmour2.jpg\"  \/>L-R, Lucia Kanter St. Amour and Christine Pelosi head up a quiz session at the book party for \u201cThe Covert Buccaneer\u201d at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club on Oct. 22.\u00a0(Leslie Katz\/Bay City News)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"756\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-167734\" data-id=\"167734\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1024 \/ 756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LuciaStAmourPages.jpg\"  \/>Pages from the family diary that inspired the novel \u201cThe Covert Buccaneer\u201d are on view at the launch for the book in San Francisco on Oct. 22, 2025. (Leslie Katz\/Bay City News) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"\/><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"\/><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"\/><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco author, attorney and political strategist Christine Pelosi, who co-hosted the talk, said, \u201cIt\u2019s two stories in one.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Set in two time periods, \u201cThe Covert Buccaneer\u201d tells the story of Theodora \u201cTeddy\u201d Ellis, who prospected for gold on the frontier, helped rebuild San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire, and championed women\u2019s rights; and her great-great granddaughter, Georgina \u201cEllie\u201d Benvenuto, a lawyer and single mother of a child with special needs facing challenges in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEllie is me,\u201d said St. Amour, adding, \u201cThe things that happen with Ellie actually happened to me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The program also included a quiz about history related to the\u00a0book,\u00a0and\u00a0San Francisco-centric prizes for guests who answered correctly. Among the questions: What opera was Enrico Caruso appearing in when the 1906 earthquake hit? The answer: \u201cCarmen.\u201d Also: True or false: In 1910, a law was passed making it illegal for women to wear hat pins. Answer: False. However, women\u00a0were required\u00a0to cover hat pins in public at a time when suffragettes were promoting women\u2019s self-reliance, including using pins as means of protection against unwanted advances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>St. Amour said it took her about a year to write the book, which she hurried to finish so she could share it with her good friend who had a terminal illness. The novel is dedicated to that friend, a \u201can intrepid fellow buccaneer,\u201d and to \u201cthose displaced from their homeland, past and present; the women whose stories are untold; and anyone who doesn\u2019t fit neatly into a category.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco attorney S. 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