Pieces Of Someday

by Jan Vallone

Overview

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. 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. Discarding prosperity and prestige, she takes a job teaching English at a yeshiva--an Orthodox Jewish high school--though she was raised Catholic. 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, Pieces of Someday 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.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015564648
Publisher:	Gemelli Press
Publication date:	12/23/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
File size:	884 KB

About the Author

Born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, Jan Vallone is the granddaughter of Sicilian immigrants. An insatiable life-long learner, she holds a Juris Doctor, a Masters in Teaching and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. After practicing law for eighteen years in Manhattan and in Seattle, Jan become a high school English teacher. Currently, she teaches literature and writing at a university. When she is not writing, reading or teaching, she enjoys gardening, Italian language study, traveling and spending time with her husband, children and friends.