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This sweeping, multi-generational novel begins in southern Italy’s Calabria region in the late 1800s, as Umbertina—the wife of a simple farmer—persuades her husband to emigrate to the United States to pursue its promise of hope and freedom for their three children.
Through years of struggle on New York City’s Lower East Side and then in a growing upstate New York town, it is Umbertina’s determination, ingenuity, and business sense that propel the family into financial success and security—leaving her daughters and granddaughters free to sort out their identities both as Italian Americans and as women.
“Through a dazzling interplay of American and Italian characters in both countries, Helen Barolini delineates the major concerns of all thinking American ethnics.” This is no less true today, as this republication restores Umbertina to a reading public newly attuned to the complexities of cultural inheritance and identity (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
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Release date
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781558617278
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781558617278
- File size: 2845 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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February 15, 1999
LJ's reviewer found this first novel a tad long but nonetheless "readable, perceptive, and rich in detail" (LJ 10/15/79). It tells the story of four generations of women, beginning in Italy in the 1860s and ending in the United States in the 1960s. This edition includes a scholarly afterword.
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