
Pat Carley, a life-long resident of Troy with a fascinating Hungarian heritage, has written a short novel, My Grandmother’s Necklace. In it, she weaves together imagined and factual details of her grandmother’s life in Europe before emigrating to the United States.
And the necklace? Why, it’s the tangible link to her past.
Pat talks about writing, heritage, and the piece of jewelry that inspired her story.