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Glad Farm

By: Catherine Marenghi
Narrated by: Catherine Marenghi
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Raised in a primitive one-room farmhouse with no indoor plumbing, the fourth of five children, Catherine Marenghi begins her life in poverty and isolation. She leaves home at the age of 17. A decade later, she is a successful journalist with the means to buy her family their first decent house. But the past will not be put to rest so easily. Catherine unravels a web of long-buried family secrets, and a terrible betrayal that robbed her family of the home that was rightfully theirs. And she finally uncovers the story her parents never shared: the gladiolus farm that was once their dream. At once lyrical and raw, unflinching in its detail, Glad Farm is an iconic American story of renewal and reinvention, and the mythic power of a house to define our destiny.

©2016 Catherine Marenghi (P)2016 Catherine Marenghi

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A beautiful story of a real family!

Loved all of it! Went to visit the home site in Milford. So much history.

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Pity party from start to finish.

Awful. She whines unremittingly about everyone being luckier than her and her family. Embarrassing. Lacks credibility.

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Reading book as I’m in Milford visiting

So many interesting events inn”our” lives. My grandfather worked at Drapers for over 25 years and my parents until 1952. Did they know your Dad? Visiting my grandparents at Sacred Heart cemetery, and leaving through the back gate, near their play, I’m on Prairie Street. Possible your Dad knew them? Your Aunt Catherine about the same age as my mom who lived in Milford/Hopedale, wonder if she knew her. Your baby brother died at the hospital I was born in. Your brother Jerry and Aunt Lizzie worked at Milford Shoe Co. All my Daniels uncles worked there for decades. Did they know each other? And finally chapter 34, your mother was at Sunbridge….the cousin I stayed with this week worked there at that time.
The crossing of all these paths took reading your book to a whole new level. Having you narrate it was brilliant.

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wonderful!

A touching and unique story of Italian immigrants. Beautifully descriptive and very interesting. Highly recommend!

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poignant story, written with honor toward family and reality of our growth, sacrifice, and silent influences on each other...our love and effort

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Thank you for sharing!

I very much enjoyed this little piece of history and the insights into the authors life. Very well written and the audiobook with the narrator’s voice and incredible! This books helps one ponder the power of family and the human connection.

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Memories

This could be my story. So many similarities that brought back a plethora of memories. Thank you for giving me answers to some of my feelings that I was never before able to understand. Your narration enhances the feelings of your story.

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Well written

The author weaves a beautiful memoir of a family with depth of each character! No one but Ms Marenghi could have done this reading justice! I absolutely love this book!

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Home is where the heart is?

I grew up in a house that I was embarrassed by, never able to have friends over. Yes, better than the one in the book. My next door neighbor girls felt the same about theirs, calling it the ( our "street name" Mansion.) The older we got, going to schools that had kids from the better side of town, the more we felt the effect. Yet both of us ended up living there again as divorced mom's, because we could not afford to live anywhere else. I guess we could both write our own books.This book brought back memories.

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Poverty to Blessings

You will need a big box of tissues to get through this book. The story will make you furious, happy & sad with moments of outright bellowed laughter. It's a story of skeletons in family closets, of deceit, of love and forgiveness.

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