My name is Melina Balistreri, and I am the daughter of Fortunata Rizzo. I wrote the book “Love, Tragedy and Revenge,” available on Amazon.com. I wrote this book, “Father and Sons,” and I am writing a third book, which will be titled “The Power of Love.” I now live in Las Vegas, after coming to America when I was 20 years old in 1963 on the ship Cristofer Columbo with my husband Salvatore Balistreri and my daughter Margherita, who was two and a half years old. After arriving in America, I had two other children, Maria Luisa and Marcello. I now have seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. The reason I am writing these books, which are all true stories, is to leave my family the story of where I came from, the remnant of my family in Sicily, the customs, and traditions, to better understand the sacrifice of how Sicily was before, how people used to dress, and how powerful the Mafia was.