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An Italian wife
Title:
An Italian wife
Author:
Hood, Ann, 1956- author.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Physical Description:
286 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm
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.
General Note:
Includes a reading group guide.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780393241662
Format :
Book