TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hood,Ann
TI  - An Italian wife
SN  - 0393241661
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - Families
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Italian American families
KW  - Italian Americans
KW  - Domestic fiction
N1  - Includes a reading group guide
N2  - 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
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