Prodigal Father

Prodigal Father is narrated by Patience Montgomery. She is a woman who had married into an east-coast, Polish-Italian family but longs to be reunited with her not-so-traditional west-coast relatives. She misses the siblings who can hardly comprehend the stark generational differences that Patience has found in the New York City-metro area, where eastern Europe's Old World culture still lives and thrives.

The culture clash Patience had observed had only been a conversation piece until it star...