An Italian wife
By: Ann Hood
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large Print core; Thorndike Press large print core series
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9781410474308
Subjects: Families; Immigrants; Family Life; Fiction; Italian American families; Italian Americans; Large type books; FICTION
Description: The extraordinary story of Josephine Rimaldi spans more than seven decades, beginning in turn-of-the-century Italy, when at fourteen she is forced into an arranged marriage to a man she doesn't know or love who is about to depart for America. 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 secretly searching for her lost child, even as her other children go off to war, get married, and make their own mistakes.