Growing up in the Great Depression and the tough years of the early forties was a struggle for the author and her family. Not only were finances a problem, so was her father. Even as a young child, Floriana realized that she, her mother and her siblings were living under the thumb of a dangerous, egoistic man who thought only of himself. The author chronicles the details of growing up in a dysfunctional home at a time when people didn't talk about...