Tag: overcoming hardship

Immigration Memoir: Statue in Search of a Voice

Immigration Memoir: Statue in Search of a Voice

Anna looked at the pale yellow sun, a pearl in the overcast November sky. Eleven days ago, this same sky stretched over mount Etna, stained …

 

A Dark Past: An account of a brave man who overcame extreme hardship

A Dark Past: An account of a brave man who overcame extreme hardship

It was a cold, hard winter in Bedford Stuy, 1970s. The chill crept under the thin layers of his thrift store clothes, slithered down his …