By Anne-Gerard Flynn

Several area women, including Anna Daniele, owner of La Fiorentina Pastry Shop, are featured in the recently published book, "Daughters, Dads and the Path through Grief: Tales from Italian America." The book is co-authored by Northampton resident Lorraine Mangione, who holds a doctorate in psychology and teaches at the New Hampshire campus of Antioch New England, and Donna H. DiCello, a licensed clinical psychologist who teaches at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven.

Other area women among the several dozen featured include retired Springfield College psychology professor Laura Maggio, and Verna Ledoux, who has been administrative assistant at the college's School of Social Work. Mangione said the book is "based on interviews we did with Italian American women, mostly in the Northeast, who have lost their fathers, and it covers the whole trajectory of the relationship from childhood until after the father's death."

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