A New Home and Other Stories

What could happen when you leave behind the life you have known and travel to a faraway country? Would you go to a place where everything feels different, and no one speaks like you do? Have you ever thought about what that must be like? Join Lina and her family on their adventures to a new home. This historical memoir will take you on a road of fulfilling dreams and the troubles along the way.

Penny Bonadonna Donehoo is a retired occupational therapist. She immigrated, with her family, from a small village in Sicily to the United States when she was six months old. Currently, she lives in Mount Prospect, Illinois, with her husband. Luckily, their four children and eight grandchildren live close by, so she can spend her time babysitting and telling them stories.