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"...[H]istory writing is always the chance to change the terms in which some are remembered and others forgotten." – Alison Light
Teresa Di Biase
Ever since childhood, listening to my grandmother's tales of growing up an orphan in Victorian England, marrying and starting a family on the frigid Canadian prairie, and making her way alone after a failed marriage by becoming a nanny to a wealthy family in Hawaii, I have been fascinated by stories of remarkable women that history has forgotten. Alongside a career as a university librarian I've pursued my passion of uncovering and sharing some of these lives by writing historical nonfiction. Over the years, one woman's voice has continued to call to me, and now it's time to tell her story.
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A woman of faith and tenacity, of courage and contradictions, who "lost the deepest part of [her] child's love" yet found healing and purpose among the imprisoned Japanese Americans of World War II, she was ... The Second Mother ...