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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 of the women who settled a foreign land, facing a new language, new customs, and new expectations about their roles as wives, mothers, and workers. Here, too, are the stories of their daughters and granddaughters, and their own struggles to reconcile old-country ways and morality with American lives and identity.

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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 Azores Islands...It brought back many memories of my grandparents and parents. Even though I was born in this country, I remember the festas, sopas, linguisa, holidays of the Portuguese people. 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. I purchased this book for my husband's Portuguese grandmother, who is getting on in years and doesn't read much anymore. She read the entire book in two days! I also looked through the book, and was very impressed with the author's 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 daughter's various ethnicities, and this book will be a fun and interesting way for her to learn about the struggles and challenges her grandparents faced as immigrints in earlier times.

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A descendant of immigrants from the Portuguese Azores Islands, Sue Fagalde Lick spent many years in the newspaper business in California's Bay Area before turning to books. Her other books include The Iberian Americans, Azorean Dreams, Childless by Marriage, and Up Beaver Creek. When not writing, she works as a church choir director. She and her dog Annie live in South Beach on the Oregon Coast.

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