{"product_id":"fatherless-fearless-female-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Fatherless, Fearless, Female: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Charity Kruger Stein\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary, a Rust Belt farm girl, the bastard child of an unwed, \u003cbr\u003eunconventional single mother, claws her way out of poverty and weds, but\u003cbr\u003e soon stumbles over the myth of monogamy. When her first husband, Don, \u003cbr\u003edies, she seeks a more honest, equitable relationship, determined that \u003cbr\u003eher infant son, Billy, will not be a fatherless child as she was. The \u003cbr\u003eday before she leaves on a freighter for Greece, she meets Isaac in the \u003cbr\u003eEast Village, and their romance blooms as they shuttle back and forth \u003cbr\u003ebetween Brooklyn and Crete. In addition to the distance between them, \u003cbr\u003ehowever, Mary must also take on Isaac's conventional Jewish mother and \u003cbr\u003eall her beliefs about how and where they should live. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFatherless, Fearless, Female\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e follows the international adventures of the dauntless Mary as she moves\u003cbr\u003e from a mob-operated strip joint in Chicago to the vineyards and \u003cbr\u003evillages of Crete, from art schools in New York and Jerusalem to the \u003cbr\u003eImperial Iranian Air Force Base in Isfahan during the revolution of '78.\u003cbr\u003e Along the way, she navigates through a maze of broken vows, broken \u003cbr\u003efamilies, and broken educational systems--and learns, at last, the value \u003cbr\u003eof love and the true meaning of her mother's deathbed story.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary C. K. Stein is a #MeToo octogenarian who started life as a Rust Belt farmgirl and learned the hard way the pitfalls that await the poor and unprotected in their quest for upward social mobility. After working for Bell Telephone, and then as a stripper in a mob-operated show lounge, and after that as a substitute teacher in an underserved middle school in Brooklyn, she began teaching AP\/IB English abroad. That work took her to six countries on five continents: Greece, Egypt, Venezuela, China, Panama, and Taiwan. She wrote \u003ci\u003eFatherless, Fearless, Female\u003c\/i\u003e in the hopes that it will give the current women's movements their own embodiment of exploited youth, a memorable Times Up Topsy, to help focus attention on their issues and bring about social change. She lives in Reno, Nevada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 29, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51884417810720,"sku":"9781631527555","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/iRvOrBh_iS9781631527555.webp?v=1781882952","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/fatherless-fearless-female-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}