Marone Memoirs

By Sarah E. Lingley

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1413428355
• ISBN13: 9781413428353
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Marone Memoirs

This book holds your attention from the very beginning until the very end. In fact I wished it could have gone on more. The book gives the real day to day life and customs of this family for several generations.

Early 20th Century Immigrant Story

A Book Review by Audrey Hebbert Marone Memoirs reads like an early 1900s newspaper, interesting and at the same time factual. The story begins in 1867 with the birth of Raffaele Marone into a wealthy family in Laurenza, Italy, and documents his life, including his marriage to Rosa under unique circumstances, and all those children. Author Sarah Lingley, Raffaele's great-great-grandaughter, pulls together the tales his living daughters have told her to reveal a story few of us can imagine. Raffaele and Rosa left behind a life of plenty in Italy to endure the challenges of raising a large family in a three-room New York apartment with a low income. How each family member contributed to the family's welfare would be unheard of today. Rosa's start in life was most unusual, but she skillfully completed her role as housewife and mother, regardless. Hers is an almost forgotten era when European immigrants left home and family for incredible hardships in the new land of opportunity, where women bore the heaviest end of the load in primitive circumstances, yet with great courage and oceans of love. We all owe these brave people a debt of gratitude for the strong religious and work ethics they instilled in their children and which trickle down to us. I enjoyed the story and read it with great interest, especially since it is historically accurate. Using a novel genre would have robbed the reader of the accuracy of detail Ms. Langley instilled in the book. Young readers and old should read Marone Memoirs, for a peek into the reality of a bygone era that is seldom presented with such honesty and intrigue.