{"product_id":"9781625349569","title":"Daughters of Stone and Tide: Loss and Resilience in a Fisherman's Family","description":"\u003cb\u003eA powerful family memoir about inheritance, identity, and the pull of the sea\u003c\/b\u003e\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\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\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\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","brand":"Bright Leaf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47697357897969,"sku":"9781625349569","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781625349569_p0.jpg?v=1772940794","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781625349569","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}