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The Struggle, First Generation
by Karen Palumbo   

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Publisher:  Wheatmark, Inc. ISBN-10:  1587365871 Type: 
Pages: 

240

Copyright:  March 1, 2007 ISBN-13:  9781587365874
Fiction

Leaving everything behind,
a family embarks on a new life......

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  Join a loving immigrant family as they leave their homeland of Italy and arrive in America to begin a new life. They endure many hardships along the way, but these struggles nevertheless strengthen their family bond.  Their will to persevere, inner strength, and faith in God will help enable this family to continue forward.
      Learn about the lives of Vincenzo and Constanza and their children, and follow them through their successes, failures, frustrations, and pleasures. The love that they have for each other and for their children is the ultimate factor that will cause this family to succeed in their new home, against all odds.....


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"To all of your brothers and sisters you give an emotional kiss and hug and it upsets you to let them go. The tears begin to flow as the realization of what is about to come next is beginning to take a chokehold on you. Yes, it is excruciatingly painful to say a final farewell to people that you have loved and cared about for your entire life.
Your parents and your wife's parents are the last to leave and this will be the most painful farewell that you have ever had to deal with in all of your adult life. Saying goodbye to your parents has become much more difficult than you had ever envisioned it to be, but alas, the time has come.
What a sad and completely sobering moment in time this has become for all of you. Of course, your wife and your mother are sobbing quietly and just cannot seem to stop. Your wife's father, your father and you seem to be stuck in the hug mode. As soon as you let go of one another, the whole process just repeats itself all over again.
The clock is continuing to tick the minutes away, the hour has come for even your parents and your wife's parents to depart, as you and your family have a busy schedule to face when the sun rises and awakens on a new day."

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Reader Reviews for "The Struggle, First Generation"

Reviewed by Mary Watson 5/31/2009
Karen Thank you for your review of my poem.
I am ordering your book from one of the booksellers for sure.
My daughter married a second generation Italian American from Syracuse, N.Y. and so my grands have the same roots. I found the immigrant Treglia's ship manifest on the Ellis Island website. It was 1922 they came and it was a struggle for Italian's . My son in law was partly raised by his immigrant grandmother who taught him how to prepare lots of dishes. I love his pizza and homemade bread from scratch!
My grands are beautiful.
Your such an accomplished woman. Viva Karen!
God Speed!
Mary
Reviewed by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen 2/16/2009
Coming from Italian roots myself, my Nonna's parents came to Ellis Island from Verona at the turn of the twentieth century, I am definitely going to have to get my hands on this book soon.
In Christs Love
Michelle~
Reviewed by Terry Rizzuti 4/16/2008
Karen, this sounds like a very interesting book. I'm 2nd Generation myself, all four of my grandparents having come over from Italy. One of the things I've often thought would also make a good story involves the life struggle of Italian-Americans (like my father) who had to go fight in Italy in WWII. Terry
Reviewed by Jane Buttery 8/28/2007
Karen, sorry I got your name wrong earlier today. I wish you well after all your efforts to get educated and bring up a family. I wish you success with your writing.
Jane
Reviewed by Gwendolyn Thomas Gath 4/9/2007
Karen your book sounds very interesting.
Congrats on your publication wishing you much success in all your endeavors!
Sincerely,
~Gwendolyn

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