Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures: Anna Monardo (After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage)
May 23 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
“Free with registration!
After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage is the story of two marriages undone by a dowry and the fallout from that rift on three generations of a Southern Italian family. Enlisting Calabrian folklore, epigenetics, and psychology, Monardo writes from both sides of the ocean, charting her grandfathers’ immigration to Braddock, a Pittsburgh steel town; her father’s wartime as a medical student in Naples; the family’s marriages—including her own—that were tainted by an Old World curse; and an unlikely path to international adoption.
Promotional Support from:
Heinz History Center Italian American Program
Sons & Daughters of Italy Primo Italiano Lodge 2800″
Heinz History Center Italian American Program
Sons & Daughters of Italy Primo Italiano Lodge 2800″