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Deeply Rooted

in Faith and Family

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Deeply Rooted is a sensitive weaving of a family chronicle with a diary telling of an unanticipated life transition. It begins with the author preparing to leave Egypt, where she and her husband had lived until his career came abruptly to an end as a result of a corporate merger. Without a job or a home in the United States, the couple had a weighty decision to make and not much time in which to make it. Giving in to a life-long yearning, they chose to make Italy their home. Leaving everything they owned crated and stored in a warehouse in Cairo, they packed two suitcases and left on their adventure.

In Deeply Rooted, the author shares this search for a home and for her inner self. Her story is a day-to-day account of what this was like - the fear, the excitement, the doubts, the discoveries, the frustrations, the magic, the letting-go. At the same time, she reflects on one hundred years of her Italian family history and how her ancestors’ models of love, faith and strength enriched and influenced her own life and her decision to make Italy her home. Ginda’s is a story about planting a dream, believing it will take root, remembering family and honoring an ancestral home.

More than an entertaining travelogue, Deeply Rooted is a story that examines the value of family, the courage of the human spirit and the grace of growing older. In it, Ginda explores the familiar terrain of Tuscany and Umbria, with an artist’s eye for color and texture. She tells the story of the Calabrian peasant and his family, and how their solid strength, unwavering faith and gentle humor color their world and that of all who are fortunate enough to spend time in their warm presence. It is a book that will make readers long for a simpler, slower life, at the same time that it encourages them to pursue their dreams. It offers candid insight into how one dream took shape.

Italian-Americans will no doubt feel a sense of intrinsic pride for the heritage they share with the author. The author’s grandfather was only one of the millions of young, hard-working, faith-filled men and women who came and contributed to the building of our strong nation by first building strong families. This is his story and theirs. This book was written for them, for their children and their children’s children. Heartfelt narratives of family and traditional values, regardless of ethnic backgrounds, nurture a basic need for stories that warm the heart. Deeply Rooted whispers to the soul.

In addition, Deeply Rooted is the story of life after lay-off. What does one do when a life-long career ends abruptly due to mergers and cutbacks? Employee down-sizing is epidemic and millions of vital, hard-working men and women in their early fifties face this question in increasing numbers every year. One can accept enforced early retirement as a gift, make life-style changes and pursue one’s dream. This book is the author’s confirmation that "down-sizing" need not cut down the size of one’s self-worth or one’s dream.

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