A historical novel based on a True Story about an Amazing early twentieth-century woman.
The Story begins in 1915..
There was one common denominator: they inherited the hard work ethic and generosity from their parents.
Some became entrepreneurs like Maria, owning small and large businesses.
Her legacy lives on in the succeeding generation of the clan who were better educated and became doctors, dentists, pharmacists, accountants, attorneys, and professors.
Maria passed her work ethic, her entrepreneurial skills, and her determination to get ahead to her children.
Starting at age twelve and until she died, her immediate family was her life.
She endured a series of traumas---miscarriages and still births, each time berated by her husband for not delivering a healthy child.
This Amazing woman, Maria, was married to a lackluster, strong-tempered, tough, fearless, uneducated man who never worked a steady job his entire life.
Eager for work, they spoke no English and were willing to do what the average, better-educated American refused to do.
They came with barely the clothes on their back.
They were determined to achieve a better lifestyle through sheer hard work, struggling to overcome hardships and failures on the journey to success.
She was surrounded by a clan of families.
This oppressed group fled the dire poverty of Sicily and southern Italy to endure a subsistence lifestyle bestowed by the owners of the coal mining industry and early American factories.
Her Story sheds light on a little-known segment of a twentieth-century diaspora, a mass-exodus from Europe by some huddled masses yearning to be free.
She stood out in a crowd of friends and relatives from Casteltermini, a small town in central Sicily.
A historical novel based on a True Story about an Amazing early twentieth-century woman
