Through My Mother's Eyes

By Tom Serino

Doris Messina was a demure teenage girl from a close-knit Italian-American family when she met Tommy Serino, a rakish boy from a dysfunctional family. Their chance encounter in front of a candy store in Poughkeepsie in 1948 would change her life forever.

Amid the historical events in a small city in New York's Hudson Valley, Doris journeys from an innocent young girl to a sensible and discerning woman through the relationship she forms with troubled Tommy. He finds wholeness through her acceptance and faithfulness, while she grows strong under his protective devotion.

In Through My Mother's Eyes, Tom Serino brings his family's story to life by incorporating a decades-old enthusiasm for Italian-American history with a lifelong passion for personal historical accounts of human experiences that test a person's character. Anecdotal accounts of people and incidents over six decades, recounted firsthand by his mother, provide a captivating account of the Messina and Serino families' lives, as well as nostalgic reminder of American life in the 1940s and 1950s.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C1HVP96B
• ISBN13: 9798218187705
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Tom Serino
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"