Such is life =
Subtitle: Ma la vita è fatta così
By: Leonilde Frieri Ruberto ; translated by Laura E. Ruberto ; introduction by Ilaria Serra ; [transcription from the Italian by Raffaele G. Ruberto]
Contributors: Ruberto, Laura E.; Serra, Ilaria
Series: Crossings -- 17; Crossings (West Lafayette, Ind.) -- 17.
Publisher: Bordighera Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: mul; eng; ita
Number of pages: 97
ISBN-13: 9781599540047
Subjects: Social life and customs; Italian Americans; Biography; Women immigrants
Other titles: Ma la vita è fatta così; Memoir
Description: Leonilde Frieri Ruberto was born in Cariano, Avellino, Italy. She completed the fourth grade, married, worked, and raised four children before she and her family emigrated to Pittsburgh in 1954. Encouraged by one of her daughters, and prompted in part by the destruction of her home village in the 1980 Irpinia earthquake, she wrote her life's story. All who have been uprooted from their homes can identify with this Southern Italian woman's saga - marked by acceptance of hardship and the poetic memory of the village in which she was born and to which she could not return.
Notes: Bilingual ed. of memoir published in English in 1995.

Includes bibliographical references.

Texts in the original Italian and an English translation.
Table of contents: title: On translating the orange spiral notebook / Laura E. Ruberto; title: Introduction / Ilaria Serra; title: Such is life; title: Ma la vita è fatta così.