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Chargement... Ma Speaks Up: And a First Generation Daughter Talks Backpar Marianne Leone
![]() Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Thanks to Book Club Cookbook for this book. A fast moving book about a daughter's love and sometimes dislike for her very Italian mother and how she grew up with a mother who didn't speak good English and was embarrassed by her in many ways but loved her too in her own way. What made me laugh was even though she sent her daughter to Catholic school she was not very religious. A lot of homemade Italian food too and her mothers life after she and her father moved from Italy to MA Marianne Leone has an outstanding talent for writing. She writes with humor and frankness that is endearing. In this book she talks about her relationship with her Italian immigrant mother and opens up to the reader about how unfair she was in judging her mother against the impossible Mrs. Cleaver expectations of the 1950s. This book has passages that you will read and re-read and then write down somewhere to remember. Highly recommended. ![]() ![]() aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"The acclaimed actress and author of Jesse: A Mother's Story tells the story of her outspoken, frequently outrageous Italian immigrant mother. Marianne Leone's Ma is in many senses a larger-than-life character, one who might be capable, even from the afterlife, of shattering expectations. Born on a farm in Italy, Linda finds her way to the United States under dark circumstances, having escaped a forced marriage to a much older man, and marries a good Italian boy. She never has full command of English, especially when questioned by authorities, and when she is suddenly widowed with three young children, she has few options. To her daughter's horror and misery, she becomes the school lunch lady. Ma Speaks Up is a record of growing up on the wrong side of the tracks, with the wrong family, in the wrong religion. Though Marianne's girlhood is flooded with shame, it's equally packed with adventure, love, great cooking, and, above all, humor. The extremely premature birth of Marianne's beloved son, Jesse, bonds mother and daughter in ways she couldn't have imagined. The stories she tells will speak to anyone who has struggled with outsider status in any form and, of course, to mothers and their blemished, cherished girls"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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On the whole, it seems like an interesting read, in a second-generation immigrant talking about and to her mother kind of way. Unfortunately, the narrative is so incredibly rambling and random, that it's quite hard to follow. There are definitely some very interesting stories in here somewhere, but I'm not sure why anyone who isn't directly related would take the time to try and untangle them.
Advanced Reader's Copy provided by Edelweiss. (