Love & Gelato Sparknotes

Imagine finding out that you have a father halfway across the world, that you didn’t even know existed until your failing mother decides to tell you about when you’re sixteen- that is what Carolina Emerson had to face In Jenna Evans Welch’s “Love & Gelato”. Jenna Evans Welch spent her teenage years in Italy, which is the fire behind this love story. Carolina and her mom lived together, just them two, and that’s how it always was, until her mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was given four months to live. Before her mother passed, she tells Lina that she has a father who lives in Florence, Italy, but her mother is very vague about her father. When the time came for her to mother pass, Lina hopped on a jet and flew across the world to her new
Lina kissed Ren at possibly the worst time possible. She and Ren had just met up with Lina’s real father- the barbaric Matteo. Matteo had trashed on Lina’s mother and Lina and told her he wanted nothing to do with her. Lina got away from him as quick as possible and collapsed into Ren’s arms and instantly started to sob. The dolor of losing her mother was finally started to catch up to her and all of her feelings of anger, sorrow, and heartache poured out all at once. Ren sat there and just let her cry, and that’s when she realized that she loved him. She loved him for being there through everything, she loved him for not questioning her when she just needed to cry, and she loved him for not caring that she looked like a fool for crying in the middle of Rome with people staring. She kissed him, and he kissed her back. But suddenly he became angry and told her it wasn’t the right timing and she was too vulnerable. It was a long and quiet train ride home from Rome to Florence. Thankfully Ren soon came to terms with his feelings about Lina and the two could finally be