After Eight, Lillian Hurd''s deeply moving story about her life''s journey will make you laugh and make you cry
Most of all it will make you think. An Italian American girl from Brooklyn, who becomes a lawyer turned educator, Lillian works through the fears and doubts impressed upon her by her upbringing and the expectations of women from generations of tradition. We follow her eighteen-year marriage to Tom, and eventual marriage to Frank. Readers learn about the grief, frustration, and conflict she experiences in a relationship that has her hiding the person she really is. But Lillian also reveals the joy, hope, and fulfillment of finding someone who allows her to be a strong, self assured woman.
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