An Italian wife
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- ISBN: 9780393241662 (hardcover) :
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Physical Description:
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286 p. : geneal. table ; 22 cm. - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
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Subject: | Italian Americans -- Fiction Italian American families -- Fiction Family life -- Fiction Immigrants -- Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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Summary:
In turn-of-the-century Italy, fourteen-year-old Josephine, sheltered and naïve, is forced into an arranged marriage to a man she doesn't know or love who is about to depart for America, where she later joins him. Bound by tradition, Josephine gives birth to seven children. The last, Valentina, is conceived in passion, born in secret, and given up for adoption. Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for her lost child, keeping her secret even as her other children go off to war, get married, and make their own mistakes.