Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Set mid-to-late 20th century (with the heart of the book set in the 1950s and ’60s), MY FATHER’S EYES is a loving daughter’s memoir of a family coming to terms with a legacy of blindness, and a father’s heroic efforts to secure independence and dignity._x000D_
_x000D_
“Not many pages into this gloriously moving book, a feeling begins to grow that it would have been a humbling yet exquisite experience to have sat and talked with Biagio John Bonina. What his daughter Mary Bonina has given us is a solid and lasting portrait of a man who was simple and complicated. (That is not a contradiction once you come to know him.)… America is a country of grand men and women who live on a modest scale, and no one fits that category more than he does. Once his eyes began to fail him, he lived even more for his family and its welfare and his efforts and work make him in my mind, the kind of real hero we fail to glorify anymore. So enter this book and come to know her father and his dedicated ov
My Father’s Eyes By Mary Bonina
$18.00
Only 2 left in stock
Be the first to review “My Father’s Eyes By Mary Bonina” Cancel reply
Related products
PBA Italian American Culture/Studies
New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 2: Art and Culture since 1945 BT Ruberto & Sciorra
PBA Local & US History
Italians of the North End: A History of Grit, Perseverance & Tradition
Italian American Culture/Studies
Italian American Culture/Studies
Dixie’s Italians: Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South
Italian American Culture/Studies
Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
Italian American Culture/Studies
Intersecting Diasporas : Italian Americans and Allyship in US Fiction
Biographies and Memoirs
The Archeology of a Good Ragù: Discovering Naples, My Father and Myself
Italian American Culture/Studies
From Sicily to Elizabeth Street: Housing and Social Change Among Italian Immigrants, 1880-1930
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.