Ida's Secrets - Paperback

by Joan Coleman (Illustrator), Andrew Coleman (Contribution by), Grace Bubulka (Author)

"Ida's Secrets" is the saga of a Depression-era immigrant who battles a childhood of poverty, abuse, and mental illness in the Philadelphia slums. Attempting to overcome her demons, she remakes her identity as a New England socialite, but her past haunts her, returning her to the life from which she tried to escape. Employing generational secrets passed down from the Old Country, the resourceful Ida finds a way to transform her many flaws into attributes, finally finding success and personal peace in her later years.