Love, Hope and Tragedy: A Brooklyn Memoir

In Love Hope and Tragedy: A Brooklyn Memoir, Joan Calciano not only reveals her strange love for her husband, but also tells her constant battle to raise seven children, five of whom battled drug addition. With a matter-of-fact writing style she describes in heartwarming and heartbreaking detail her devoted relationship with her grandson, Anthony, who was born with AIDS. This book offers hope and inspiration to the millions of people who feel trapped in abusive relationships or who are coping with loved ones who suffer from AIDS or drug additions. Joan Calciano shares anger, madness loss and most important, this lesson: to love a family member in spite of his or her flaws.