Immigrant Daughter: Stories You Never Told Me

American-born Catherine knows little of her Croatian mother's early life. When Marijana dies of ovarian cancer, twenty-two-year-old Catherine finds herself cut off from the past she never really knew. As Catherine searches for clues to her mother's elusive history, she discovers that Marijana was orphaned during WWII, nearly died as a teenager, and escaped from Communist Yugoslavia to Rome, and then South America. Through travel and memory, history and imagination, Catherine resurrects the relatives she's never known. Traversing time and place, memoir and novel, this lyrical narrative explores the collective memory between mothers and daughters, and what it means to find wholeness. It is a story where a daughter gives voice to her immigrant mother's unspoken history, and in the process, heals them both.

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Immigrant Daughter: Stories You Never Told Me

American-born Catherine knows little of her Croatian mother's early life. When Marijana dies of ovarian cancer, twenty-two-year-old Catherine finds herself cut off from the past she never really knew. As Catherine searches for clues to her mother's elusive history, she discovers that Marijana was orphaned during WWII, nearly died as a teenager, and escaped from Communist Yugoslavia to Rome, and then South America. Through travel and memory, history and imagination, Catherine resurrects the relatives she's never known. Traversing time and place, memoir and novel, this lyrical narrative explores the collective memory between mothers and daughters, and what it means to find wholeness. It is a story where a daughter gives voice to her immigrant mother's unspoken history, and in the process, heals them both.

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Immigrant Daughter: Stories You Never Told Me

Immigrant Daughter: Stories You Never Told Me

by Catherine Kapphahn
Immigrant Daughter: Stories You Never Told Me

Immigrant Daughter: Stories You Never Told Me

by Catherine Kapphahn

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Overview

American-born Catherine knows little of her Croatian mother's early life. When Marijana dies of ovarian cancer, twenty-two-year-old Catherine finds herself cut off from the past she never really knew. As Catherine searches for clues to her mother's elusive history, she discovers that Marijana was orphaned during WWII, nearly died as a teenager, and escaped from Communist Yugoslavia to Rome, and then South America. Through travel and memory, history and imagination, Catherine resurrects the relatives she's never known. Traversing time and place, memoir and novel, this lyrical narrative explores the collective memory between mothers and daughters, and what it means to find wholeness. It is a story where a daughter gives voice to her immigrant mother's unspoken history, and in the process, heals them both.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780578545028
Publisher: Catherine Kapphahn
Publication date: 08/21/2019
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 631,838
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Catherine Kapphahn's Immigrant Daughter: Stories You Never Told Me received The Center for Fiction's Christopher Doheny Award. Her writing has received multiple grants from the Queens Council on the Arts. Her essays have appeared in Astoria Magazine, the Feminist Press Anthology This is the Way We Say Goodbye, CURE Magazine, and SalonZine. She earned a B.A. from Hunter College and an M.F.A. in writing from Columbia University. Catherine is an adjunct lecturer at City University of New York at Lehman College in the Bronx, where her students' brave stories continue to inspire her. Catherine is also a yoga teacher. She grew up near the mountains in Colorado and now lives between two bridges in Queens, New York with her husband and two sons.
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