{"product_id":"daughters-of-stone-and-tide-maria-mia-millefoglie-9781625349569","title":"Daughters of Stone and Tide: Loss and Resilience in a Fisherman's Family","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful family memoir about inheritance, identity, and the pull of the sea\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurrendered as an infant in America, Maria \"Mia\" was taken in by Sicilian immigrants in Gloucester, Massachusetts--a gritty working-class town steeped in salt and tradition. She inherits a name that traces back to 19th-century Sicily, where her great-grandfather was abandoned as a newborn on \u003ci\u003ela ruota dei proietti\u003c\/i\u003e, the \"wheel of the castoffs.\" Christened Millefoglie, \"a thousand leaves, a thousand pages,\" he crossed the bold Atlantic to America's shores, carrying with him a legacy of endurance and exile.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor generations, the Millefoglie men went to sea: dorymen who rose before dawn to cast their nets along jagged coastlines, captains of eastern-rig draggers navigating storms that could split a vessel in half, stowaways chasing the promise of a life they could scarcely imagine. They lived by tides, currents, and the unspoken rules of the ocean; their courage and skill tested daily by wind and water. The women, left on shore, learned a different kind of survival, keeping households, raising children, and enduring the constant absence of fathers, brothers, and husbands. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto this world of fishermen and keepers of the shore, Mia was adopted, learning early that bloodlines dictate identity and tradition shapes fate. College is forbidden; marriages are arranged, and no one abandons the family. By nineteen, trapped in a fish-packing job and lost in a haze of drugs, Mia does the unthinkable: she leaves. Decades later, drawn back to Gloucester's weathered harbor to care for her aging parents, Mia begins to unearth her family's buried stories, tracing the lineage from a Sicilian orphanage to a New England fishing port and the invisible inheritance that shaped them all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth intimate and historical, \u003ci\u003eDaughters of Stone and Tide\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on identity, abandonment, and belonging--a fisherman's daughter's search to understand the forces that bind and break a family across generations and seas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria Mia Millefoglie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1625349564\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625349569\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bright Leaf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Maria Mia Millefoglie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520217755903,"sku":"9781625349569","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_694d4a8b-7b87-43c0-92d5-2434736050c8.jpg?v=1778741440","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/daughters-of-stone-and-tide-maria-mia-millefoglie-9781625349569","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}