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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Hood, Ann, 1956-     Subjects     Italian Americans -- Fiction.     Italian American families -- Fiction.     Families -- Fiction.     Women immigrants -- Fiction.     Adopted children -- Fiction.     Family secrets -- Fiction.     Arranged marriage -- Fiction.     Birthmothers -- Fiction.     Rhode Island -- Fiction     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hood, Ann, 1956-       by title:      An Italian wife / An...       by call number:      FICTION HOO     Search the Web     Hood, Ann, 1956-     Italian Americans -- Fiction.     Italian American families -- Fiction.     Families -- Fiction.     Women immigrants -- Fiction.     Adopted children -- Fiction.     Family secrets -- Fiction.     Arranged marriage -- Fiction.     Birthmothers -- Fiction.     Rhode Island -- Fiction       MARC Display

An Italian wife / Ann Hood. by Hood, Ann, 1956- W. W. Norton & Company, c2014. Call #: FICTION HOO Subjects Italian Americans -- Fiction.   Italian American families -- Fiction.   Families -- Fiction.   Women immigrants -- Fiction.   Adopted children -- Fiction.   Family secrets -- Fiction.   Arranged marriage -- Fiction.   Birthmothers -- Fiction.   Rhode Island -- Fiction ISBN:  9780393241662 0393241661 Edition:  1st ed. Description:  286 p. : geneal. table ; 22 cm. Notes:  Includes reading group guide discussion questions. Summary:  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 as her other children go off to war, get married, and make their own mistakes. Genre:  Women's fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION HOO Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Bedford Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION HOO Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION HOO Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION HOO Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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