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    Sicilian Gothic: The Convergence of Carmelo and Nellie: A Novel Based on the Lives of My Parents , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 301min
    Most novels don't have footnotes, said a friend to whom I'd sent a draft manuscript of this book.True, but most novels aren't overtly based on real people. This one is. Carmelo and Nellie Tosto were my parents. Why is it a novel, a work of fiction? Because there isn't enough documentable evidence about them to constitute a typical biography.Unlike today, with its surfeit of personal data - photos, videos, correspondence, diaries, and the like - the period between 1901 and 1939 afforded few opportunities, especially for lower class immigrants, to leave tangible evidence of their presence on earth.Before converging in an arranged marriage, the lives of Carmelo Tosto and Nellie Cascio were on divergent paths.Carmelo's history is particularly sparse as his documentation originates at an institution for abandoned infants in Catania, Sicily in 1901. He grew up in a nearby fishing village and at the age of 14 went to work as a merchant marine sailor until 1925 when he jumped ship in Baltimore.Nellie was born in Sicily but grew up from infancy in America with serious aspirations to become a Catholic nun. There's much more evidence of her early life, but her character and story need some enhancement.After diligent gleaning using today's powerful internet search tools, I amassed a trove of facts about them. I added to those findings whatever I could collect from personal reminiscences, family lore, and some artifacts.It was exciting to see the early days of my long-gone parents taking shape in my mind. But also frustrating. Like scrapbooks retrieved from a flood, the tide of time had dissolved much detail about them. As the first fruit of their convergence, I didn't know them personally until they were well into their 30s. By then, like most of us, they had changed markedly from their youthful personas.I felt the best way to present their story was to assemble my collection of fact fragments with the connective ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mario Tosto. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/156562/bk_acx0_156562_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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