Out of the Bronx: A Memoir

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

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

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

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

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