Sauce on Sunday - An Ancestral Journey to Find My Sicilian Roots

Janet Sierzant

Beschreibung

While sitting at a restaurant with two of my fellow authors, one asked me about my Sicilian background. I laughed and said, “All I know is, we always have sauce on Sunday.” My friends joined in the laughter, but I realized that I didn’t really know too much about the maternal part of my heritage. Something awoke inside of me and I had the desire to find out exactly from where I came. I began the quest for my roots. Within a few months, I had the surprise of my life. I discovered that my grandfather had a second sister, who he left behind in Sicily. Who would ever have thought that the grandchildren of three siblings, separated during their youth, would find each other after a lifetime of being apart?
 
Sauce on Sunday is a chronicle of my four trips to Sicily, along with pictures and history of the small fishing village, Sciacca, where my grandfather grew up.

Verfügbar seit: 03.12.2018.

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