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Unwanted!: Memoirs of an Anglo-Indian Daughter of Rev. Michael De Lisle Lyons of Detroit, Michigan | 
| Author: Esther Mary Lyons
Publisher: Lyons
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2167854
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0975463993
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780975463994
ASIN: 0975463993
Publication Date: March 1, 2005
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Condition: The life of the offspring of a American catholic priest in India
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Product Description
Unwanted! is the biography of Esther Mary Lyons. She lived through a time when many changes were taking place in the world. Many discoveries were being made which helped shape the present into a better world. Besides describing the culture and a time which can never come back, she describes her own pain and frustrations as she grew up as an illegitimate daughter of an American Jesuit priest, deserted and abandoned in India at the age of four. Her story takes readers to the past—through the history of India, the United States, and Australia—and then brings them back to the present when all things have changed. It also covers Irish migration to the United States in 1850s during the Potato Famine, French migration in the 1700s to Canada, and the establishment of Detroit City. In addition, Lyons describes incidents surrounding the creation of the atom bomb in the 1940s. The book also describes the involvement of Catholic priests in politics during World War II. It is a story of culture, history, and emotions.
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A true story, from the perspective of a woman who struggled against poverty, discrimination, and being an outcast in two worlds November 11, 2005
Unwanted! is the memoir of an Anglo-Indian daughter of a Roman Catholic priest. The transgressions of her birth and the birth of her sister during the mid-twentieth century, of having a father who was supposed to be celibate, was severe in the eyes of society at the time; and so she suffered discrimination from the Hindus of India, who did not share her Christian religion and accused her of having loose morality because of her father, and the Church itself, which refused to allow her to become a nun or help her struggle to survive in poverty. She and her sister were declared orphans at a young age even though their parents were alive; a childhood robbed of innocence and burdened with undeserved guilt prompted her into an ill-fated marriage to a chronic liar with a verbally abusive personality. Yet despite her hardships, she found the resilience to pursue a teaching career, raise children (one born intellectually and physically handicapped due to her husband's genetic background), and eventually forge a new life for herself in the unfamiliar land of Australia. At last she experienced the miracle of contact with relatives from her father's side - though he was a distant figure and a poor father to her, who kept her existence secret for many years, the truth came out after his death and she experienced what she had always dreamed of: being part of a large, respectable and loving family. Unwanted! is a compelling true story, from the perspective of a woman who struggled against poverty, discrimination, and being an outcast in two worlds, yet whose achievements and hard-learned lessons speak for themselves. Highly recommended.
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