More than 60 Portuguese immigrants and their descendants tell what it was like adapting to a new country and how it felt growing up Portuguese American. Chapters look at immigration, marriage, work, religion, culture, the arts and the connections between California and Portugal.

Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California

Biographies & Memoirs

Lick, Sue Fagalde

Community & Culture

Blue Hydrangea Productions

Newspaper reporter Chelsea Faust spends most of her spare time in the darkroom and runs marathons for fun. She's working for a small weekly newspaper now, but plans to move up. At 28, she lives alone and lets no one tell her what to do. When she meets Simao Freitas, a recent Portuguese immigrant, while on assignment in San Jose's Little Portugal, the attraction is instant. However, any chance at a future together appears to be doomed as Simao battles memories of a painful loss while Chelsea pursues a news story headlong into a situation that could cost her life.

Azorean Dreams

Literature & Fiction

It’s bad enough that PD’s husband left her a childless widow at 42, but when she heads west from Montana to the Oregon coast to remake her life with a new name, a new look and a new determination to become a professional musician, things keep going wrong. Her cabin has a few problems, but the landlord has disappeared. The She’s running out of money, and her first music gig is a disaster. Is she doomed to be penniless and pitiful? Not if she can help it.

Up Beaver Creek: A Novel

Genre Fiction

Nearly one million Portuguese Americans live in California, immigrants or the descendants of immigrants who left poverty behind to seek a better life. Stories Grandma Never Told collects the accounts of the women who settled a foreign land, facing a new language, new customs, and new expectations about their roles as wives, mothers, and workers. Here, too, are the stories of their daughters and granddaughters, and their own struggles to reconcile old-country ways and morality with American lives and identity.

It's like this giant secret that is right in front of everyone. One in five women reach menopause without having children. For more than half of them, it was not by choice. At least not their own. They don't have children because their partners were unable or unwilling to have children with them. This happens to men, too. Hooked up with a partner who a) never wanted children, b) already has kids from a previous relationship, c) never quite felt ready for parenthood, d) has had a vasectomy, or e) has fertility problems, they are forced to make a choice between this man or woman they love and the children they might have had. It's an unfair choice, one nobody should have to make, but the readers of my previous book and my blog, both titled Childless by Marriage, have to make it. The decision you make will affect everything else in your life. This book, Love or Children, is a compilation of the best of more than 700 posts and comments from the Childless by Marriage blog. Think Dear Abby or Dear Sugar, except I ask the questions and the anonymous readers answer them, sharing their own experience and advice. Love or Children unveils the secrets we don't feel comfortable telling our families, friends, our partners, or even our therapists. It also contains information and advice people in this situation--and their loved ones--need to read. Chapters tackle how childless relationships happen, whether to stay or look for someone else, how to deal with the grief of losing the chance to have children, how to cope with people's clueless comments and questions, the joys and frustrations of stepchildren, how to prepare for old age, and more.

Love or Children: When You Can't Have Both

Parenting & Relationships

First you marry a man who does not want children. He cheats and you divorce him. Then you marry the love of your life and find out he does not want to have children with you either. The three he has are more than enough. Although you always wanted to be a mother, you decide he is worth the sacrifice, expecting to have a long happy life together. But that's not what happens. This is the story of how a woman becomes childless by marriage and how it affects every aspect of her life.

Childless by Marriage

Seal Rock Sound

Between the Bridges: By the Author of Up Beaver Creek and Seal Rock Sound

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

More than 60 Portuguese immigrants and their descendants tell what it was like adapting to a new country and how it felt growing up Portuguese American. Chapters look at immigration, marriage, work, religion, culture, the arts and the connections between California and Portugal.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sue Fagalde Lick

Social Sciences

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Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California

Azorean Dreams

Up Beaver Creek: A Novel

Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California

Love or Children: When You Can't Have Both

Childless by Marriage

Seal Rock Sound

Between the Bridges: By the Author of Up Beaver Creek and Seal Rock Sound

Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California