An Italian wife /
Hood, Ann, 1956-,
An Italian wife / Ann Hood. - First edition. - 286 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm
Includes a reading group guide.
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.
0393241661 9780393241662
2014013801
GBB484019 bnb
016821777 Uk
Families--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Italian American families--Fiction.
Italian Americans--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
An Italian wife / Ann Hood. - First edition. - 286 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm
Includes a reading group guide.
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.
0393241661 9780393241662
2014013801
GBB484019 bnb
016821777 Uk
Families--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Italian American families--Fiction.
Italian Americans--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.