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The acclaimed celebrity and author of Jesse: A Mother's Report tells the storyplot of her outspoken, frequently outrageous Italian immigrant mother. Marianne Leone's Ma is at many senses a larger-than-life persona, one who might be competent, even from the afterlife, of shattering goals. Born on a plantation in Italy, Linda detects her way to america under dark circumstances, having escaped a forced matrimony to a much more aged man, and marries a good Italian young man. She never has full demand of English, in particular when questioned by authorities, and when she actually is instantly widowed with three small children, she has few options. To her daughter's horror and misery, she becomes the institution lunch lady. Ma Speaks Up is a record of growing up on the wrong aspect of the songs, with the incorrect family, in the incorrect religion. Though Marianne's girlhood is flooded with shame, it's equally packed with trip, love, great baking, and, most importantly, laughter. The extremely premature birth of Marianne's favorite child, Jesse, bonds mother and daughter with techniques she couldn't have imagined. The reports she tells will speak to anyone who has struggled with outsider position in any form and, of course, to moms and their blemished, appreciated girls.
