Out of the Bronx: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781631525391)

Irene Sardanis was born into a Greek family in the Bronx in the 1940s in which fear and peril hovered. Her mother had come to New York for an arranged marriage. Her father drank, gambled, and enjoyed other women--and then, when Irene was eleven, abandoned her family altogether. Faced with their mother's violent outbursts in the wake of this betrayal, Irene's older siblings found a way out, but Irene was trapped, hostage to her mother's rage and despair. When she finally escaped her mother as a young adult, she married a neighbor, also Greek, who controlled and dominated her just like her mother always had.

But Irene wasn't ready to let her story end there. With therapy, she eventually found the courage to leave her husband and pursue her own dreams. Out of the Bronx is her story of coming to terms with the mother and past that terrified and paralyzed her for far too long--and of how she went on to create a new life free of those fears.

Author: Irene Sardanis
ISBN-10: 1631525395
ISBN-13: 9781631525391
Publisher: She Writes Press
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2019
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001