Fatherless, Fearless, Female: A Memoir

Mary, a farm girl from the Rust Belt, rises from poverty and marries but faces challenges with monogamy. After her first husband's death, she seeks a more honest relationship with Isaac, a Jewish man from the East Village. They face cultural differences and struggle with the distance between them. The film follows Mary's journey from Chicago to Crete, exploring broken vows, families, and educational systems while learning the value of love and her mother's story.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 312 pages
Publication date: 07 December 2020
Publisher: She Writes Press

Mary, a Rust Belt farm girl, the illegitimate child of an unwed, unconventional single mother, claws her way out of poverty and marries, but soon stumbles upon the myth of monogamy. When her first husband, Don, dies, she seeks a more honest, equitable relationship, determined that her infant son, Billy, will not be a fatherless child as she was. The day before she leaves on a freighter for Greece, she meets Isaac in the East Village, and their romance blossoms as they shuttle back and forth between Brooklyn and Crete. In addition to the distance between them, Mary must also take on Isaac's conventional Jewish mother and all her beliefs about how and where they should live.

Fatherless, Fearless, Female follows the international adventures of the daring Mary as she moves from a mob-operated strip joint in Chicago to the vineyards and villages of Crete, from art schools in New York and Jerusalem to the Imperial Iranian Air Force Base in Isfahan during the revolution of 78. Along the way, she navigates through a maze of broken vows, broken families, and broken educational systems—and learns, at last, the value of love and the true meaning of her mother's deathbed story.

Weight: 408g
Dimension: 141 x 216 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781631527555