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The Beads He Carried
Paperback
General FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781066795307
Publisher: Cassaro Publishing
Published: Mar 20 2027
Pages: 340
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Caccamo, Sicily, 1913. In the blue hour before dawn, a boy of six named Giuseppe is dressed in stiff travelling clothes and taken to the village bakery, where an old man presses a worn wooden rosary into his hands and gives him a charge heavier than he can understand: keep it safe - on the ship, in America, every mile.
So begins the crossing that carries Giuseppe from a Sicilian hill town across the Atlantic to a new country, and a lifetime of holding on to what he left behind - the names, the faces, the honeyed smell of a bakery he will never find again.
Drawn from real family history and told with a hundred years' hindsight, The Beads He Carried is a warm, unhurried story of emigration and belonging: of what a child keeps in his pocket, what a family carries across an ocean, and the small, sacred things that make the journey with us.
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