Fatherless, Fearless, Female
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Fatherless, Fearless, Female

A Memoir

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Fatherless, Fearless, Female

A Memoir

About this book

Mary, a Rust Belt farm girl, the bastard child of an unwed, unconventional single mother, claws her way out of poverty and weds, but soon stumbles over the myth of monogamy. When her first husband, Don, dies, she seeks a more honest, equitable relationship, determined that her infant son, Billy, will not be a fatherless child as she was. The day before she leaves on a freighter for Greece, she meets Isaac in the East Village, and their romance blooms as they shuttle back and forth between Brooklyn and Crete. In addition to the distance between them, however, Mary must also take on Isaac’s conventional Jewish mother and all her beliefs about how and where they should live.

Fatherless, Fearless, Female follows the international adventures of the dauntless Mary as she moves from a mob-operated strip joint in Chicago to the vineyards and villages of Crete, from art schools in New York and Jerusalem to the Imperial Iranian Air Force Base in Isfahan during the revolution of ’78. Along the way, she navigates through a maze of broken vows, broken families, and broken educational systems—and learns, at last, the value of love and the true meaning of her mother’s deathbed story.

Information

Publisher
She Writes Press
Year
2020
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781631527562
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Prologue
  8. Chapter 1: B is for Bastard
  9. Chapter 2: The Garden Revisited
  10. Chapter 3: Sexual Orientation
  11. Chapter 4: Oh, No, Not Me, Not Me Too!
  12. Chapter 5: Truth and Consequences
  13. Chapter 6: Open Marriage in the Big Apple
  14. Chapter 7: “What’s Good for the Goose
  15. Chapter 8: Death Comes Calling
  16. Chapter 9: Going into Exile
  17. Chapter 10: Whither Thou Goest
  18. Chapter 11: To Be or Not to Be—Married?
  19. Chapter 12: Study on Crete
  20. Chapter 13: Voyage of the Golden Fleece
  21. Chapter 14: “We Are Met on a Great Battlefield
  22. Chapter 15: Wars Foreign and Domestic
  23. Chapter 16: Back to the Big Apple and Beyond
  24. Chapter 17: Nothing Left to Lose
  25. Chapter 18: Stay and Die with BHI
  26. Chapter 19: Learning ‘In sha’ allah the Hard Way
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. About the Author

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