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Stone Doll: An Immigrant's Memoir from War-Torn Italy to the American Dream - Hardcover
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by Toni Boucher (Author), Josh Young (With)
From a dirt floor in Italy to the halls of American power--this is one woman's extraordinary journey.
In 1955, five-year-old Toni Boucher left everything she knew behind. Her family's stone farmhouse in war-torn Italy--with its dirt floors and no running water--would become a memory as they boarded a ship for America with empty pockets, no English, and nothing but hope.
Stone Doll is the unforgettable memoir of an immigrant girl who refused to let hardship define her limits. Arriving in a country that promised everything but guaranteed nothing, young Toni watched her illiterate parents struggle to build a new life while family tragedies threatened to tear them apart. Yet through heartbreak and setbacks, she discovered an unbreakable spirit--first nurtured by her father and brother, and later strengthened by the love of her husband.
From those humble beginnings emerged an unstoppable force: entrepreneur, political leader, philanthropist. Boucher would run seventeen political campaigns and win fifteen, rising to the highest levels of Connecticut state government. Together with her husband, she rode the entrepreneur's roller coaster--facing crushing failures and spectacular successes, never losing faith in the power of an idea worth fighting for.
Today, as a major benefactor of the University of Connecticut and champion for society's most vulnerable, Toni Boucher proves that the American Dream isn't just about where you end up--it's about lifting others as you climb.
This is her story. It could only happen in America.
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