Irene Sardanis
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English
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Human connection is a basic human need. In her second memoir, The Power of Meeting and Connecting with Strangers, author Irene Sardanis captures the importance of connection and illustrates how it can be met in the most unlikely places: with strangers.
Irene has discovered that connections can be forged everywhere she goes and in unpredictable ways. Doing so has led to rich, vibrant connections she never anticipated, which she shares in these pages.
Irene...
Author
Language
English
Description
Irene Sardanis was born into a Greek family in the Bronx in the 1940s in which fear and peril hovered. Her mother had come to New York for an arranged marriage. Her father drank, gambled, and enjoyed other women-and then, when Irene was eleven, abandoned her family altogether. Faced with their mother's violent outbursts in the wake of this betrayal, Irene's older siblings found a way out, but Irene was trapped, hostage to her mother's rage and despair....