Truth's Daughter

Legacy of Divorce, A Memoir

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Pub Date 15 Jul 2021 | Archive Date 29 Sep 2021

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On her sixtieth birthday, Barbara spit into a vial, hoping a genetic search engine might lead to finding her fathers’ other children. Perhaps they could shed light on her fathers’ identity and her parents short-lived marriage.

She’d met her father just four times before he was brutally murdered in Miami Beach, ending any chance of knowing him in the future. Raised in poverty in the Bronx by her beautiful and brilliant mother, she accepted the narrative of her fathers’ deceit and abandonment.

In mid-life, she is confronted with a painful truth about her mother. The seeds of doubt and search for truth began in earnest. She was determined to make truth the legacy of their lives. In the absence of facts, she discovers the importance of forgiveness and understanding as a vehicle for healing.

On her sixtieth birthday, Barbara spit into a vial, hoping a genetic search engine might lead to finding her fathers’ other children. Perhaps they could shed light on her fathers’ identity and her...


A Note From the Publisher

Barbara Santarelli RN, B.S- H.C.A, an employed nurse for more than four decades before semi-retirement in 2017, has authored articles on sex education for Tweens as well as on aging gracefully. Her previous memoir, "Everything I Never Wanted" was praised for its relatable, conversational writing style and candor in addressing uncomfortable truths.

A mother and grandmother, she lives with her husband and spoiled ten-pound Daschund in a one-hundred-and-fifty-year-old home in a Northern Westchester New York suburb.

Barbara Santarelli RN, B.S- H.C.A, an employed nurse for more than four decades before semi-retirement in 2017, has authored articles on sex education for Tweens as well as on aging gracefully. Her...


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Barbara, aged 60 looks back on her life, mainly in respect of her relationship with her father, who had been largely absent from her life. He had an imagined life in Miami designing famous buildings, while Barbara and her mum and brother lived in relative poverty in the Bronx. Or that’s what Barbara thought. He appeared from time to time to take them out for dinner, then disappeared again. As Barbara grows up she becomes more detached from him but her curiosity about his life remains. This is an intense, beautifully written book.

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On her sixtieth birthday, Barbara spit into a vial, hoping a genetic search engine might lead to finding her fathers’ other children. Perhaps they could shed light on her fathers’ identity and her parents short-lived marriage.

She’d met her father just four times before he was brutally murdered in Miami Beach, ending any chance of knowing him in the future. Raised in poverty in the Bronx by her beautiful and brilliant mother, she accepted the narrative of her fathers’ deceit and abandonment.

In mid-life, she is confronted with a painful truth about her mother. The seeds of doubt and search for truth began in earnest. She was determined to make truth the legacy of their lives. In the absence of facts, she discovers the importance of forgiveness and understanding as a vehicle for healing.
Wow what a great book! Seriously buy this one !!

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