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03097aam a2200433 i 4500 001 A4310B36B47911EB9D5870B534ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210514010010 008 200822t20212021nyua 000 0aeng 010 $a 2020025677 020 $a 0593156714 020 $a 9780593156711 035 $a (OCoLC)1193558202 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d ABJ $d AZZPT $d BDX $d MJ8 $d TCH $d OJ4 $d OCLCO $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Carcaterra, Lorenzo, $e author. 245 10 $a Three dreamers : $b a memoir of family / $c Lorenzo Carcaterra. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Ballantine Books, $c [2021] 300 $a xi, 225 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 520 $a At sixty-six, Lorenzo Carcaterra finds it easier to reflect on the past than ruminate on the future. "By the time you reach my age," he writes, "you have witnessed too much loss to not be aware of what lies ahead." This turn to the past inspired a poignant memoir about the women who made him the man he is today. His Italian grandmother, Nonna Maria, gave him his first taste of a loving home during the summers he spent with her as a teenager on Ischia, an island off the coast of Naples. With her kindness, her humor, and the same formidable strength she employed to make secret trips for food when the Nazis occupied Ischia during World War II, she instilled in him the importance of community, providing shelter for a boy whose home life was difficult. His mother, Raffaela, dealt with daily hardships: a loveless and abusive marriage, the burden of debt, and a life of dread. Though the lessons she taught were harsh, they would drive Lorenzo from the world they shared to the better one she always prayed he would find. The third woman is his wife, Susan, a gifted editor and his professional champion. Their marriage lasted three decades before her death from lung cancer in 2013. While their upbringings were wildly different, their love and friendship never wavered--and neither did her faith in Lorenzo's talent and potential as a writer. Standing with his children near Nonna Maria's grave on a recent trip to Ischia, Lorenzo realized how much of his life has been shaped by the women who taught him how to look for joy and overcome sorrow. This book is his tribute to them. -- $c From publisher's description. 505 0 $a Maria -- Raffaela -- Susan. 600 10 $a Carcaterra, Lorenzo. 600 10 $a Carcaterra, Lorenzo $x Family. 600 10 $a Carcaterra, Lorenzo $x Marriage. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 21st century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Italian Americans $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Man-woman relationships. 650 0 $a Mother and child. 941 $a 5 952 $l UGPF911 $d 20231207014833.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010022637.0 952 $l WBPB115 $d 20230209023901.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210702013058.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210514010022.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A4310B36B47911EB9D5870B534ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search