Pieces of Someday: One Woman's Search for Meaning in Lawyering, Family, Italy, Church, and a Tiny Jewish High School
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (722 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0988478439 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 242 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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A wonderful memoir. Vallone's narrative gift--by turns lyrical, funny and raw--and her awareness of grace provide the 'fusion and repair' that render a life whole and meaningful. Read about her life and gain new insight into yours.--Gregory Wolfe, editor of Image literary journalAn extraordinary book. Ms. Vallone's candid musings on the essence of beauty, the search for balance, the importance and meaning of religion and the many kinds of love are awe-inspiring and oftentimes poignant.--Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson, reviewer for Reader Views
Discarding prosperity and prestige, she takes a job teaching English at a yeshiva--an Orthodox Jewish high school--though she was raised Catholic. Winner of the Reader Views Reviewers' Choice Award Have you ever asked yourself, "What is the purpose of my life?" If so, read this book. At the age of forty-four, Jan Vallone is everything her Italian American parents brought her up to be--a lawyer, wife and mother who owns a vintage home and takes European vacations. There, she opens her heart to her students, who bloom under her tutelage and teach her the meaning of faith and fulfillment. Set in New York, Seattle and Italy, this memoir portrays how one woman fuses the facets of her life--family, career, ethnicity, spirituality and dreams--into a cohesive picture as luminous as stained glass. Includes a special vocation workshop for readers who would like to discover their callings.. But instead of feeling happy and successful, she's consumed by frustration and anxiety that threaten to shatter her marriage and have dimmed her faith
An Exotic Bouquet of Words As memoirs go, Jan Vallone's "Pieces of Someday" is an exotic bouquet of words. Some of the flowers she offers the reader are in full bloom and fragrant with sweetness, while others are pungent with the awkward aroma of painful self-awareness. Still others wilt before our eyes. Then there are those that blo. An Outstanding Memoir I have a (very) small shelf for favorite memoirs in my office, and "Pieces of Someday" is going on it!There are many things to love about this memoir – for starters, the story Vallone weaves about how, at the age of forty-four, she is everything her Italian American parents dreamed she would be &ndash. A Woman for All Seasons Jan Vallone's Pieces of Someday transported me into another age - one rich with European culture that spills in to words as rich as pastas with the finest cheeses and wines with dizzying bouquets. It also carrys me forward into an era where women search for their identity as lovers, mothers, and professiona