The Beads He Carried

By Donna Matthews

Caccamo, Sicily, 1913. In the blue hour before dawn, a boy of six named Giuseppe is dressed in stiff travelling clothes and taken to the village bakery, where an old man presses a worn wooden rosary into his hands and gives him a charge heavier than he can understand: keep it safe - on the ship, in America, every mile.

So begins the crossing that carries Giuseppe from a Sicilian hill town across the Atlantic to a new country, and a lifetime of holding on to what he left behind - the names, the faces, the honeyed smell of a bakery he will never find again.

Drawn from real family history and told with a hundred years' hindsight, The Beads He Carried is a warm, unhurried story of emigration and belonging: of what a child keeps in his pocket, what a family carries across an ocean, and the small, sacred things that make the journey with us.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1066795304
• ISBN13: 9781066795307
• Release Date: March 2027
• Publisher: Cassaro Publishing
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"