Abstract:
Ana Cielo’s LONG JOURNEY HOME is about family and the dedication of one woman to find her mother and brother after their wrenching separation from each other during World War II in Italy. Maria finds solace in her friendship with a wise Priest, but then is sent to America and adopted by her second family. She returns as a young student to Europe for school, and finds her mother and brother changed by time. Maria achieves a greater understanding of the unhappiness and guilt her mother endured when she herself decides to give her own child up for adoption.