By Gilda Morina Syverson

At age 50, Gilda Morina Syverson knows it is time to transform her relationship with her father by casting off her role as argumentative child and by healing the rifts that divide them. "My Father's Daughter" tells the story of that inner transformation that slowly unfolds with discoveries about ancestry, family, culture, and connection to Italy.

From Rome to her father's hometown of Gualtieri Sicaminò, then her mother's hometown of Linguaglossa, Syverson uncovers clues to her parents' past, placing her own Italian American childhood in Syracuse, N.Y., in greater context.

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