Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California

by Sue Fagalde Lick

Book Overview

Nearly one million Portuguese Americans live in California, immigrants or the descendants of immigrants who left poverty behind to seek a better life. Stories Grandma Never Told collects the accounts... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890771058
• ISBN13: 9781890771058
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Heyday Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California

This book is very helpful, especially if your mother and/or grandmother was an immigrant. Information gives good detail into our heritage and the spirit and hardships faced by our ancestors. I will be sharing information with my children and grandchildren.Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California

If you are a woman of Portuguese descent - read this book

I am not Portuguese but my husband is. If you are a woman of Portuguese descent or have married into a Portuguese family, read this book. I was laughing from the very beginning but it also taught me a lot. Portuguese women in the United States, whether immigrants or born here, will find their stories in this book. Thought you were the only one who struggled to grow up in America with parents from the old country? You are not alone. Loved it.

Excellent Ethnography

This book is written in a style that reminds me of a graduate thesis, the subject of course being the Portuguese who immigrated to California. The title is slightly misleading because, while there are a lot of stories, most of it relates to you perspectives from specific women and their experiences as immigrants. It is through these specific women that Lick recaptures what it was like to immigrate from Portugal and the Azores, the traditions, culture, and country they left behind, and what they found once they got here. Being of Portuguese descent, this book was incredibly insightful about what my foremothers went through when they immigrated to America, and what the Azores were (and are) like. It gave me a wonderful perspective on a world I might otherwise have never really known. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it!

EXCELLENT....TELLS THE STORY JUST AS I REMEMBER MY ANCESTORS

tHIS BOOK IS A MUST FOR EVERY PORTUGUESE WOMAN/MAN TO READ. BEING OF PORTUGUESE DESCENT. I REALLY RELATED TO THESE STORIES. BOTH OF MY PARENTS WERE IMMIGRANTS TO THE USA FROM THE AZORE ISLANDS. I TRULY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK OF TO ANYONE WHO IS OF PORTUGUESE HERITAGE..BROUGHT BACK MANY MEMORIES OF MY GRANDPARENTS & PARENTS. EVEN THOUGH I WAS BORN IN THIS COUNTRY, I REMEMBER THE FESTAS, SOPAS, LINGUISA, HOLIDAYS OF THE PORTUGUESE PEOPLE. HOPEFULLY, I HAVE PASSED ON SOMETHING TO MY OWN THREE CHILDREN..

Informative, funny , touching, and at times, a little sad.

I purchased this book for my husbands Portuguese grandmother, who is getting on in years and doesnt read much anymore. She read the entire book in two days! I also looked through the book, and was very impressed with the authors keen insight into the traditional Portuguese ways and customs. I will also purchase another copy for my daughter, so she can learn as much about her Portuguese heritage as possible, when she is old enough to understand it.I would like to instill a sense of pride in my daughters various ethnicities, and this book will be a fun and interesting was for her to learn about the struggles and challenges her grandparents faced as immigrints in earlier times.