Bøger af Natalie Galli

During her teen years through her early twenties, San Francisco native Margie Steiner wrote the poems presented in this collection. On April 11, 1978, she read them all to a live audience at The Intersection in North Beach. Home to the legendary Pitschel Players improvisatory group, The Intersection at 756 Union Street celebrated San Francisco's art, theatre, dance, music and literary riches with performances open to the public. Margie was already writing poetry as an active, exuberant young person before a high school gym class accident at age sixteen left her leg permanently injured. The course of her life entirely altered; she struggled with pain and immobility from then on. Even so, she created poem after poem.

In a timely account at this moment in the #MeToo movement, author Natalie Galli, of Sicilian-American heritage, travels on a personal odyssey to find the girl who broke a thousand-year-old Sicilian tradition that allowed kidnap and rape in pursuit of marriage. In the process, Galli uncovers a family secret, encounters the long arm of the Mafia, and discovers new strengths in herself as she successfully completes her quest.