Описание: This story is about an Italian Catholic family that came to America on vacation and never returned to their homeland. When their youngest unwed daughter became pregnant, her family disowned her. It was 1949. Abortions were illedgal. She was seventeen when she gave birth. She was my mother.
This book chronicles the effects the birth of an unwanted child had on three families and three generations. It takes you through the unsettling chain of events that followed when my mothers family sent her away. It shares her fight for survival to care for us, and how she eventually gave up and left me with strangers.
