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I absolutely loved reading this series of The Rock and The Rose Saga … I have just finished reading Book ll Within Me An Invincible Summer and Book lll Knowing She Hath Wings.

(My review of Book l The Infinite Passion of Life) HERE: https://frandi.wordpress.com/2020/12/29/the-infinite-passion-of-life-by-d-j-paolini-a-book-review/

I fully recommend these books to anyone who loves everything Italian, including the language. The author, D.J. Paolini, combines historical and current world events, intertwined with an intriguing multi-generational ongoing family saga. Added to the Italian family saga, Lebanon the country, and its language, heighten the intrigue around friendships, romance, and political affairs.

Coming from a Lebanese Italian family and heritage myself, along with their inherent tragedies and emotional dramas, not to mention the mixed languages, I could relate so well to all of these stories.

Read the whole series, I urge you. – Anne Frandi-Coory

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Author Anne Frandi-Coory

In 2010 I wrote a book ‘Whatever Happened to Ishtar?’ – A memoir and family history told in two books entitled ‘Italian Connections’ ‘Lebanese Connections’ … My Catholic childhood filled with fear, abuse, and gross neglect.

“Give me a child for seven years and I will give you the [woman]”

Anne Frandi-Coory at 8 years of age – just removed from Mercy Orphanage for the Poor in Dunedin

The theme running through the book relates to my passionate quest to find answers for generations of defeated mothers on both sides of my family tree. It’s about the brutal men in their lives, the endless pregnancies, and the women’s strict adherence to CathoIicism. In the end, the patriarchal Catholic Church betrayed their trust. Would Ishtar the Babylonian goddess have been a better role model and protector of female rights than the Virgin Mary turned out to be?

I know that in my mother’s case, if she had sought help from professionals rather than endlessly praying to her imaginary god, her life would have been far different.

I now live in Melbourne with my partner, Paul.

—anne frandi-coory

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In 2010 I wrote a book ‘Whatever Happened to Ishtar?’ – A memoir and family history told in two books entitled ‘Italian Connections’ ‘Lebanese Connections’ … My Catholic childhood filled with fear, abuse, and gross neglect.

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In 2010 I wrote a book ‘Whatever Happened to Ishtar?’ – A memoir and family history told in two books entitled ‘Italian Connections’ ‘Lebanese Connections’ … My Catholic childhood filled with fear, abuse, and gross neglect.

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