Cassandra Campbell
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In turn-of-the-century Italy, fourteen-year-old Josephine, sheltered and naive, 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...