Becoming Mariella(English, Paperback, Constantino Janet)

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Becoming Mariella(English, Paperback, Constantino Janet) is written by Constantino Janet and published by She Writes Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1647427681 (ISBN 10) and 9781647427689 (ISBN 13).

It's unprecedented, even in the twenty-first century, for a young Sicilian woman to defy the centuries-old mandate, 'Family is everything!' - but twenty-two-year-old Mariella Russo is desperate to escape Sicily. She's being relentlessly coerced into an engagement with her wealthy college sweetheart - a young man from a prominent, powerful family - by her envious and erratic mother, who hopes the match will increase her own ignominious social status. Suddenly, Mariella's lifelong home has become a claustrophobic island. In a bid for independence and an attempt to escape entrapment, she flees to San Francisco. But Mariella's bete noire - entrapment - follows her to San Francisco, where everyone wants more from her than she wants to give. Her American roommate, Leslie, turns out to be a gay man rather than the woman she imagined; her employer/lover is pressuring her to live with him; and her neurotic mother is haunting her, wreaking havoc and embarrassment. An urgent return trip to Sicily puts Mariella to the ultimate challenge: will she submit to tradition, or choose a life she wants for herself?