Rose Street: A Family History

Rose Street: A Family History by Leone, Carmen J.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780917530524.

"Rose Street" is a family biography in the form of a novel dealing with the authors immigrant parents between 1907 and 1946. It was originally drafted as a Christmas gift to memorialize the special love and courage of the authors parents, who assumed immense personal responsibility for raising six siblings of the authors mother along with five children of their own. The story deals with the personal struggles and difficulties of an immigrant family in the steel town of Youngstown, Ohio through two world wars and the Depression. Rose Street, a tiny paved brick block in the poorer east side section of the town sent thirty eight young men and women to the various theaters of WWII. The book stresses the importance of family values and faith during the turmoil of the first half of the century.