Forty Years in a Day by Mona Rodriguez, Dianne Vigorito (.ePUB)
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Forty Years in a Day by Mona Rodriguez, Dianne Vigorito
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Overview: BASED ON A TRUE STORY
Experience an Italian immigrant family’s profound bravery and life-changing journey into twentieth-century America.
What does it take to leave everything you’ve ever known…for a chance at something better?
The story begins in Italy in 1900. After years of torment and neglect, Victoria flees with her four young children for New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, determined to escape her alcoholic, abusive husband.
On the day they leave, he tragically dies, but she does not learn of his death for several years—a secret that puts many lives on hold.
Quickly, they realize America’s streets are not paved with gold, and the limits of human faith and stamina are tested time and time again. Poverty, illness, death, kidnapping, and the reign of organized crime are just some of the crosses they bear.
Victoria’s eldest son, Vincenzo, is the sole surviving member of the family. During a visit to Ellis Island on his ninetieth birthday, he shares a gut-wrenching account of their lives—including a dark and long-hidden connection to an infamous Irish mob boss—with his daughter, Clare. His unsettling disclosure ends with a monumental request that leaves Clare speechless.
Forty Years in a Day is a sweeping story of one immigrant family’s fight to endure — every sacrifice, every secret, every scar — and the courage it takes to look back at where you came from.
Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed…
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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