Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1998
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781558617278 (electronic bk.) MWT12285804, 1558617272 (electronic bk.) 12285804
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
This multigenerational novel begins in Calabria, as Umbertina persuades her husband to emigrate. Through years of struggle on New York City's Lower East Side and 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 to sort out their identities as Italian Americans and as women
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