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The Pagano Chronicles
A Sicilian Family's
Journey Into American Life
This heartfelt and highly researched non-fiction novel outlines the 500-year history of one major branch of the Pagano family from the Sicilian villages of Carini and Terrasini. It colorfully profiles some of the men and women who remained there, and the dreamers who sought brighter futures in America not so very long ago.
The Pagano Chronicles is filled with seldom-told stories and profiles, tailored for those who are curious about the lives of their ancestors – where they came from, why they left, when did they arrive in the U.S., and the many challenges they faced and overcame as they journeyed into American life.
About The Book
The Pagano Chronicles
The Pagano Chronicles, a Sicilian Family’s Journey into American Life, is about a farm family from a small Sicilian village more than 500 years ago and its evolution into a family of thousands of descendants today throughout the U.S., Sicily, the Netherlands, and elsewhere around the globe.
It is filled with interesting and many never-before-told stories about heroes and everyday members of this large Sicilian family, the tragedies they suffered, the challenges they faced, and their more joyous moments before, during and after immigrating to America in the early 20th century.
The Pagano Chronicles also includes many family profiles and true stories that are written in a casual, conversational style, with historical context for clarity and better understanding.
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Why You’ll Love This Book
The Pagano Chronicles, a Sicilian Family’s Journey into American Life, is all about connections: Links between a major branch of the Pagano family who remained in Carini and Terrasini, Sicily, and those who immigrated to achieve their version of the American dream in the early 20th century. But it’s also about today’s connections, and how several generations of modern-day descendants are all related – they’re cousins -- whether they know it or not.
This 392-page, non-fiction novel is filled with interesting stories about heartbreak and happiness, struggles and success, marriages, families, heroes, and everyday members of this large Sicilian family, which initially settled in Detroit and St. Louis, but are now located across the U.S. and Europe, including Terrasini and the greater Palermo, Sicily region.
It also is an engaging tribute to the men, women, and children who bravely made their way across the Atlantic and created new lives in America for the betterment of themselves, their families, and succeeding generations. They were real people with their own unique and very real stories. May they never be forgotten.
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About The Author
About The Author
Thomas D. Pagano is a captivating storyteller, who enjoyed a long and fulfilling career as a radio and newspaper reporter, editor, and columnist, and later, an award-winning strategic communications professional.
His vast experience and investigative skills are evident in the extensive research he conducted to develop stories and brief profiles about his Sicilian ancestors, most of whom left their picturesque seaside village of Terrasini, Sicily, in the early 1900s, and made their long, hard journey into American life.
Once in the U.S., they were quite entrepreneurial. Then again, because they could neither read, write, nor speak the English language, they had to be. They succeeded mostly as unskilled laborers in car plants, as ice and coal peddlers, florists, seamstresses, and as fruit and produce vendors.
The Pagano Chronicles, a Sicilian Family’s Journey into American Life is Tom’s first novel, despite the fact he has been a writer of news and corporate communications since the mid-1970s. He is St. Louis-based writer and Vietnam-era U.S. Army veteran. He loves big, loud family get-togethers, a great round of golf, fishing, gardening, history, and many other interests. Tom and his wife, Katie, are blessed with three sons, a daughter-in-law, and two precious granddaughters.