A Young Girl from a Little Village at the Foot of the Alps

Beginning with her early years in wartime Italy, Luigina tells the bittersweet story of her limitless love for her blind, musically gifted daughter, Carla, who died in the peak of life. She also examines her complicated feelings about her physician husband, a man whose cold, sometimes cruel, behavior tormented her throughout their long years of marriage. In her captivating memoir, Luigina unflinchingly explores the peaks and valleys of her past. With clear-eyed honesty, she delves into why she stayed with a husband who shamed and humiliated her and ponders the paths not taken. Her reminiscences--full of intense pain and joy--will resonate with readers who also have suffered devastating disappointments and losses in life and who yearn to make sense of their pasts and come to an acceptance of events as they unfolded.