{"product_id":"daughters-of-stone-and-tide","title":"Daughters of Stone and Tide","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDaughters of Stone and Tide\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMaria  Millefoglie\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781625349569\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBright Leaf\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e288\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful family memoir about inheritance, identity, and the pull of the sea\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSurrendered as an infant in America, Maria \"Mia\" was taken in by Sicilian immigrants in Gloucester, Massachusetts--a gritty working-class town steeped in salt and tradition. She inherits a name that traces back to 19th-century Sicily, where her great-grandfather was abandoned as a newborn on \u003ci\u003ela ruota dei proietti\u003c\/i\u003e, the \"wheel of the castoffs.\" Christened Millefoglie, \"a thousand leaves, a thousand pages,\" he crossed the bold Atlantic to America's shores, carrying with him a legacy of endurance and exile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor generations, the Millefoglie men went to sea: dorymen who rose before dawn to cast their nets along jagged coastlines, captains of eastern-rig draggers navigating storms that could split a vessel in half, stowaways chasing the promise of a life they could scarcely imagine. They lived by tides, currents, and the unspoken rules of the ocean; their courage and skill tested daily by wind and water. The women, left on shore, learned a different kind of survival, keeping households, raising children, and enduring the constant absence of fathers, brothers, and husbands. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInto this world of fishermen and keepers of the shore, Mia was adopted, learning early that bloodlines dictate identity and tradition shapes fate. College is forbidden; marriages are arranged, and no one abandons the family. By nineteen, trapped in a fish-packing job and lost in a haze of drugs, Mia does the unthinkable: she leaves. Decades later, drawn back to Gloucester's weathered harbor to care for her aging parents, Mia begins to unearth her family's buried stories, tracing the lineage from a Sicilian orphanage to a New England fishing port and the invisible inheritance that shaped them all. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth intimate and historical, \u003ci\u003eDaughters of Stone and Tide\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on identity, abandonment, and belonging--a fisherman's daughter's search to understand the forces that bind and break a family across generations and seas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Bright Leaf","offers":[{"title":"Daughters of Stone and Tide | Maria  Millefoglie | Paperback | 9781625349569 | New | Memoir 1758794","offer_id":49852041494680,"sku":"1758794","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71rtop1vEpL.jpg?v=1788883347","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/daughters-of-stone-and-tide","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}