Out of the Bronx

A Memoir

By: Irene Sardanis

Narrated by: Irene Sardanis

Leaving home was not easy for Irene Sardanis.

Born into a Greek family in the Bronx in the 1940s, she was the youngest child of an unhappy mother and a father who drank, gambled, and enjoyed other women—and then, when Irene was 11, abandoned the family altogether. Irene's older siblings found a way out, but Irene was trapped, held 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 of 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.

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