FORGOTTENOBJECTS, traces the life of Anna d’Amio, daughter of opera singers Louis andFrancesca d’Amio, from Mussolini’s Italy to the city of Pittsburgh during themid sixties.
Thenovel proper is made up of three parts: Italy, Cuba and United States. Marriedat seventeen and widowed at twenty, Anna leaves war-torn Italy to find her fortunein Cuba, where she eventually meets Ramón Contreras, a wealthy tobacco growerwho later becomes her second husband. The idyllic world that the couple had so laboriously built suddenlycomes crashing down after the communist take over of the island and Ramón’ ssudden and violent death.
Nowwith two daughters under her care, Anna soon realizes that there is no futurefor them in Cuba, so she opts to send them to the United States through thePedro Pan Program. Eventually she comes to the US herself, but by then thegirls have been placed in foster homes. It is during this stage of her life,penniless and without influence, that she must make the greatest sacrifices toregain custody of her daughters.
Atthe end of the novel, we find a series of letters, all dated 2005, that wereexchanged by the sisters after their mother passed away. Anna left behind a boxcontaining a collection of sundryitems that she had gathered throughouther life. Cognizant that these were significant to their mother, they attemptto piece together a sketch of her life through these forgotten objects.
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