Out of the Bronx A Memoir, Irene Sardanis
Out of the Bronx A Memoir, Irene Sardanis
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Out of the Bronx: A Memoir

Author: Irene Sardanis

Narrator: Irene Sardanis

Unabridged: 6 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/25/2022


Synopsis

Leaving home was not easy for Irene Sardanis. Born into a Greek family in the Bronx in the 1940's she was the youngest child of an unhappy mother and a father who drank, gamboled and enjoyed other women.- and then when Irene was eleven abandoned the family altogether. Irene's older siblings found a way out, but Irene was trapped hostage to her mother's rage and despair. When she finally escaped her mother as a young adult, she married a Greek man who controlled and dominated her just like her mother always had. But Irene wasn't ready to let her story end there. Out the Bronx is a story of how, with the guidance of one significant woman, Irene found a road away from danger - and a path to freedom.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela on April 24, 2020

For anyone who struggles to overcome challenges, whether familial or personal, this memoir about a tender young girl growing up in an immigrant family in the Bronx is for you. Insightful, well-written, and full of emotion, Sardanis inspires hope while writing the bitter truth. So far, my favorite re......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on June 25, 2019

Out of the Bronx reveals the sad truth about how a parent’s depression may have life long effects on their children. Irene Sardanis openly shares the guilt and shame burdened upon her as a young girl by her immigrant mother. Her memoir reveals the process and outcome of her own courage to break free......more

Goodreads review by Alison on June 16, 2021

I just turned the last page of Out of the Bronx. My stomach is quivering and my eyes are full of tears- I am so, SO grateful to have read this memoir. I love Irene’s fire, her refusal to be held down, and her raw honesty. Beyond describing the heartbreaking reality of child abuse and, later, the dyn......more

Goodreads review by Shane on May 01, 2022

Here is Irene Sardanis escaping from an abusive childhood, moving through a slew of failed relationships and marriages, to finally, a loving relationship. The most riveting parts of the book, for me, are those involving her mother, who could throw a mean right hook as well as dish out a plethora of......more

Goodreads review by Keith on May 21, 2023

Irene Sardanis was raised by an abusive mother and the main reason why she wrote this book seems to be to get back at her. She tells how she was brought up by Greek immigrant parents in a poor area of New York with two sisters and one brother. The family was abandoned by their philandering father wh......more