![]() ![]() Everything in Frankie’s life is potential currency, including his family he even sells his second-oldest daughter Marina to gangster Joe Medora in exchange for a house and money to pay off his debts. ![]() Her father, Frankie Gauci, is an incorrigible gambler who bets “more than he can afford to lose.” On the day Dolores is born, he loses his half-share of a café, as well as the apartment above it where his family lives. With one hand permanently disfigured by a fire when she was only one month old - the hand is beautifully described by the author as “a closed white tulip standing in the rain a cutoff creamy marble in the shape of a Saint a church candle with its tears flowing down the bulb of wrist” - Dolores has always been treated as an outcast. The Hiding Place is narrated by Dolores, the youngest of six daughters born to a Maltese immigrant father and a Welsh mother. ![]()
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