Book Description

The Cure of the Heart is a poetry book, completely equipped with Italian translations, about the life of a child overcoming and growing up in an Italian American household, with a parent who has been incarcerated since she was nine years old. It is based on true events and discusses the author’s personal experience with sexual assault, heartbreak, and insecurity issues. This powerful story is told through poetic stylistics and in chronological order of the author’s life. It is told through the heart of New York City, constantly surviving Brooklyn and Staten Island stereotypes. This title comes from the author using writing as a way to cope with everything she was forced to overcome.