Orange Peels and Cobblestones edition by Rose Marie Dunphy Literature Fiction eBooks
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From her early childhood days in Italy to her life as a young wife and mother in Brooklyn, Marietta is haunted by hard questions from her past. In her struggle to be free, she realizes what she must do discover the truth about her tangled family life even at the risk of losing the little she has left. This is a deeply moving novel about the enduring power of love amidst abandonment, rejection, betrayal and the consequences of others’ decisions.
Praise for Orange Peels and Cobblestones
“In this intimate and engaging debut novel, Rose Marie Dunphy provides us lessons about love, loss and how the power of forgiveness will make us whole again…This lovely book is poignant, heartbreaking, and like all good stories is full of redemption and insight.” – Dr. Fred Luskin, Director Stanford Forgiveness Projects author of Forgive for Good and Forgive for Love.
“A coming-of-age love story, compellingly told, with a combination of controlled sentiment and wry humor that brings to life Italy during the early postwar years, Brooklyn during the 1950s, and New York and Southern California during the 1960s --each location forming the backdrop of Marietta's unique narrative and complicated family life… A great read.” – Marion Osmun, Editor, New York, NY
Orange Peels and Cobblestones edition by Rose Marie Dunphy Literature Fiction eBooks
I greatly enjoyed reading Orange Peels and Cobblestones. The descriptions of life in Italy and the U.S. were very realistic. I could smell and taste as I read due to the clear descriptions. I lived through the same time period and had Italian relatives and friends so it brought back wonderful memories. The ending is rewarding and well worth the read.Product details
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Orange Peels and Cobblestones edition by Rose Marie Dunphy Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Abandoned by her mother at age 10. Torn from her entire beloved family in Italy. Thrown into years of struggling to overcome her sorrow. That’s Marietta’s story.
Now an adult and a mother herself, she shares her heartbreaking childhood trauma, searching for answers and peace of mind.
Marietta is the oldest of two girls born into an embattled marriage. Her beautiful mother pursues men and fashions, and imagines becoming a movie star in America. Her self-serving father loves good times and riches more than his wife and girls. Marietta’s mother takes her girls to the home of her parents, Nonno and Nonna, in a thousand-year-old Italian city on the Ionian coast. There Marietta revels in her grandparents’ love until a scheme by her restless mother tears her away from that refuge and sends her to America — all alone.
New life unfolds for Marietta in Brooklyn with a difficult aunt and uncle. As she grows to womanhood, many good things happen, too, in surprising ways, but never enough to heal a heart that keeps asking, “How could a mother abandon a child?”
Religious faith helps Marietta endure. Joyful memories of Italy also help — like the longed-for warmth of her grandparents’ home, and a game with orange peels played on cobblestone streets with an unforgettable friend. But will this cast-off girl ever be reunited with her family, the reader wonders? Can she ever forgive her mother?
This well-written story — with many a stormy and tender scene of family life Italian style.— kept us turning pages, with high hopes for Marietta that were rewarded. We're recommending Orange Peels and Cobblestones to family and friends.
D & D Hendrickson, Portland, OR
This is the very poignant story of a young child, Marietta, confronted with a family decision that transforms her life. We watch her happily playing with her friends on the cobblestone streets of Italy and then despondently traveling all alone at the tender age of 10 on a plane to America after her parents have sold her to her new family. She cannot even speak the English language.
How does this traumatic experience impact her life? How does she survive? Is she able to confront her past and move on? Does she ever meet her parents again and if so, what is the outcome?
These are the riveting questions that keep the reader turning the pages because one has to learn the outcome.
A most interesting read!
Orange Peels and Cobblestones is the coming of age story of Marietta, born in Castellanetta, Italy, "under the instep of Italy's boot." She is the child of too-young parents, Stella and Antonio, whose marriage is abysmal. Each time they separate, Stella moves with her daughters back to her mother's home. There Marietta thrives, a happy child who views her life in Castellanetta as nearly idyllic because she is blessed with her grandmother, Nonna, who adores and nurtures both her and her sister, Pia.
Then one day, without warning, the darkest day of her decade-long life arrives when Marietta's mother, Stella, calls her into the house from her playtime outside on the cobblestone street. "Marietta, we're going shopping to buy you new clothes—a coat, dress, shoes, hat, everything. You're going to America!"
Marietta learns that her father's brother and wife, Uncle Paul and Aunt Teresa—whom the little girl has never met—have never been able to have children and want to adopt her. She will have a much better life in America, Marietta's mother assures her. The adoption papers have already been signed. Stunned and unbelieving, Marietta knows just one thing for certain nothing in America can make her life better than the one she has with her Nonna.
Months later, in the middle of the night, Marietta is abruptly awakened and told to get dressed for her flight to New York in America. Numbly she obeys and soon a train to Rome whisks her, accompanied by her family, away from Castellanetta. They share a last meal in the airport terminal, Stella puts Marietta on her flight, and says good bye. Marietta is unable to verbalize her feelings of fear and the haunting belief that her parents and Nonna no longer want her.
Uncle Paul, a New York City policeman, and Aunt Teresa arrive an hour after Marietta's plane lands. Their new child has been sitting alone in the airport, unable to understand the new language, and watching people meeting and leaving together until the area is nearly void of travelers. Finally she sees them approach. Uncle Paul greets his new daughter warmly while his wife, who has never wanted children, is remote and far from welcoming.
Marietta is quickly pulled into her strange new environment when she starts school in Brooklyn. Her determination to master English astounds her devoted teacher, her new father, and shows how determined and intelligent she is. The reader then travels with Marietta and her challenging new family through her school and college years, her marriage to a wise and compassionate man, and the eventual birth of their daughter, Anna. As she holds her infant close, Marietta finds she cannot believe that anyone would give a child away as her childhood family did. She is thus propelled to find answers and journeys far, with her husband and child, to visit her mother in California, and Nonna, still alive in Castellanetta. And there I leave you to uncover Marietta's truth in this poignant, memorable story.
by Mary Jo Doig
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
Held my interest to the end but the ending was a bit anticlimactic. Main character was sympathetic but could have been a bit more spunky.
Very moving story of a young woman coming of age in extremely trying circumstances
Rose's book, Orange Peels and Cobblestones, is a wonderful story. It is a page-turner and I felt immersed in the book while reading as the characters come alive. You want to know what's coming next and what the outcome will be! The story shows how resilient children can be even when placed in unimaginably difficult situations.
I greatly enjoyed reading Orange Peels and Cobblestones. The descriptions of life in Italy and the U.S. were very realistic. I could smell and taste as I read due to the clear descriptions. I lived through the same time period and had Italian relatives and friends so it brought back wonderful memories. The ending is rewarding and well worth the read.
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