Sicilian Secrets

Descrição: An immigrant, Italian family is humiliated by their daughters actions. Eastville, a town of fifteen hundred. hears all. The rumor mill spins and spins. The family holds this secret tightly to the chest of ancestors and strangers. Secrets are knots, woven with an encore.All of the four estranged children live challenging lives. Connie, a granddaughter, grows up in a chaotic home. Her future is faced with depression and paternity confusion.After twenty-seven years, the mothers whereabouts are discovered. The mother is dead but leaves a daughter. Much communication ensues.Most families have a skeleton dangling in a closet somewhere. The descendants of Pietro and Guiseppina La Placa found many doors, as they walked the hall of life, with numerous skeletons ready to rattle out.This is foremost the story of Connie Basile, third generation Sicilian, who at an early age sensed the skeletons. Why dont I have a grandma? elicited mother Serafinas answer, Shes dead. But was Grandma Mazie dead? May I see your wedding picture? was cut off with Dont have any. Despite Connies childhood in the stately Northend Tavern among small-town characters, her anxious nail-biting became recurring bouts of adult depression. Her brother Salvatore didnt share her sensitivity to the family dynamic. Connie and her family are devout Catholics. Connie persevered to sing, teach, marry Ed, and raise four children after being widowed young.Grandma Mazie is discovered living a new life in Albany with her first husband Joes brother, Paul, and she has a daughter, Dina, much to the distress of the four children she ran away from. Dina tells Mazies first family about her marvelous loving parents.Not until a passport clerk said, Step aside. I have a different birth certificate here, did the buzzing of town and family gossips make sense to Connie. She finds out she was adopted at the age of 4 by Constantino, her current father, from her mothers first husband, Vincenzo.Outside the hall of s

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