Pieces of Someday: One Woman's Search for Meaning in by Jan Vallone

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By Jan Vallone

on the age of forty-four, Jan Vallone is every thing her Italian American mom and dad introduced her as much as be—a legal professional, spouse, and mom who owns a classic domestic and takes ecu holidays. yet rather than feeling chuffed and profitable, she’s fed on by means of frustration and nervousness that threaten to shatter her marriage and feature dimmed her religion. Discarding prosperity and status, she takes a task instructing English at a yeshiva—an Orthodox Jewish excessive school—though she was once raised Catholic. There, she opens her center to her scholars, who bloom below her tutelage and train her the that means of religion and fulfillment.
Set in ny, Seattle, and Italy, this memoir portrays how one lady fuses the aspects of her life—family, profession, ethnicity, spirituality, and dreams—into a cohesive photograph as luminous as stained glass.

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