RACING THE BEANS

Memoir In Motion: Can Julianna finish the chapter about Delianouva before the heirloom beans are ready for harvest?

The beans have sprouted!

My nonna, on her first and only, one way trip from Delianuova, Calabria, Italy, to upstate NY, thought it wise to bring with her, the seeds of the beans upon which her ancestors have been harvesting, and surviving off, for more generations than even Henry Louis Gates could possibly trace..

Imagine the thoughts that went into takin…