Domenica Calabrese Tedeschi's The Most Beautiful Rose is a delightful, yet heartbreaking memoir of an Italian girl growing up in a rural village in the Molise section of Italy. She tends cows, brings manure to her father, feeds the animals, and does other daily farm chores. She also goes to school and enjoys an extremely close relationship with her two cousins. Until one day, they move away to Canada. They are all devastated! But, an even greater tragedy is to befall the family. Their mother dies leaving seven children, aged 14 years to newborn infant! One day at a time, they learn to cope with the hardships of life without Mom. Two of the sisters were placed in an orphanage. Eventually, their father married a woman they all knew who lived in The United States, and the family emigrates to America. The two oldest children remained in Italy, however, leading to another heartrending good-bye. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll learn a great deal about Italian life and culture when you read The Most Beautiful Rose, Memoir of an Italian Immigrant's Extraordinary Childhood! Several photographs and a map of Italy, too!
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Trafford Publishing
ISBN-10
1426910142
ISBN-13
9781426910142
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92359014
Product Key Features
Book Title
Most Beautiful Rose : Memoir of an Italian Immigrant's Extraordinary Childhood
Author
Domenica Calabrese Tedeschi
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, General, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Juvenile Nonfiction