Your Mother Is Brave
July 23rd, 2020 | by Edvige Giunta
At seventeen I defied the fascist youth on the streets of Catania, brandishing a piece of paper. I left home, country, language, family.
About Edvige Giunta
Edvige Giunta
Edvige Giunta was born in Sicily and came to the United States in 1984. The author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and coeditor of several anthologies, she has published in Creative Nonfiction, River Teeth, Tiny Essays, Literary Mama, Barrow Street, Fictive Dream, Tint Journal, and other publications. She is Professor of English at New Jersey City University. Her children, Emily and Matteo, are her best teachers.