... she cannot leave her mother and live with Michael. He provides only part of the answer in her journey, and she realises that she cannot desert her mother. Josie's grandfather, Francesco had a unique situation with his wife - Josie's "Nonna". Being from Italy (the old country), it was customary for arranged marriages to be set up by ones parents. This is the ... situation that "nonna" found herself in. However, she committed adultery, and had a child that was not fathered by Francesco. This child was Josie's mother, and Francesco always resented her. While Josie never met him, she was aw...

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... grandmother every afternoon drives me absolutely insane." (marchetta 33) Overtime, they get so close, that nonna Katia told Josephine her family secret; Marcus Sandford is Christina's biological father not Nonno Francesco's. Another relationship Josephine was able to strengthen was between Michael Andretti and her. Josephine has known about him all her life, but has never met him until this year. At ... ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Josie's family is part of the Italian community in Sydney. Her grandmother settled in Australia with Francesco, a man that was 15 years older than she was and with whom she had been forced into a marriage with. When they did reach Australia, the way that the Australian women ... ...

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The night of September 18, 1988, was the day that I born in Montreal, Quebec at Saint Mary's Hospital. My parents decided to name me Michael Francesco Fazzari. My parents were extremely excited when the doctor told them that I was healthy and ready to go home. I wasn't the only child, I have a brother whose name is Giuseppe Fazzari ... ...

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... Nonna's past. Further along, as Nonna's past unfolds, Josie discovers what her Nonna had done. She had slept with another man, and that her mother was not in fact Nonno Francesco's daughter. Knowing this, helped Josie feel less alone, because of what her Nonna had done in comparison to her illegitimacy, she was no longer "the" shame of the family. We ... ...

• Word Count: 727
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• Grade Level: High School