Unto the Daughters: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian-American Family

The author of Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster journeys into her own family's past to investigate the 1919 death of her great aunt Frances, a young woman who eloped with a local barber in spite of her father's plans to marry her to an older neighborhood mafia don and who paid the ultimate price when she was murdered by her father and brothers. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.