Alessandra Anderson

“He says there’s also a trunk marked Alessandra. That was my mother’s real name, you know, although I guess she always called herself Sandra or Sandy. I never knew Momo had her stuff.” “For someone who let it all hang out in her poetry, Chetta could be one closemouthed lady when she wanted to.”

Lucy’s deceased mother, known as Sandra or Sandy; her belongings are in Concetta’s stored trunk.

Her surname and student-teaching affair are discussed in the family-history discovery.