The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series

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    I Dwell in Possibility

    Toni McNaron

    "Represents a new generation of women's writing, one in which personal histories and maternal legacies are reclaimed in the context of a feminist consciousness of the effects of class, race, ethnicity, and sexuality on the individual life.... McNaron creates a vivid, moving, and memorable account of life and a person developing in, with, and against the times."–Nancy Porter, CALYX

    Under the Rose

    Flavia Alaya

    Beneath its «scandalous» surface, Flavia Alaya's life story goes to the heart of women's struggles for independence, self-definition, and sexual agency.Flavia was 22 years old, a radiant but sheltered Italian American on a Fulbright in Italy, when she met Father Harry Browne. When the attraction that began in a cafe in Perugia grew too compelling to resist, they embarked on a relationship that violated one of the most powerful taboos of the Church and of society, yet endured for over 20 years. By day, they were subsumed in progressive community organizing. By night, they were subsumed in a relationship carried out, even through the birth of their three children, in absolute secrecy–sub rosa, or «under the rose.»