From Sardi's to Sicily: by Nancy Maniscalco Miracle
The sublime obviously being Icon. The book below was written (an I use the term loosely) by Nancy Miracle, who for years has been claiming that Marilyn was her mother. In this book she claims that Marilyn was not born Norma Jeane Baker (or Mortenson) to Gladys Baker in Los Angeles but instead she was Nancy Cusumano.
Nancy Miracle claims that her parentage has been verified in 2 states but I can find no mention of which to states in the book, she also changed her name to Miracle in an attempt to convince the gullible public that she was indeed related to Marilyn as Marilyn's sister's surname is Miracle - but only by marriage.
The author (again a term used loosely and I will explain why in a short while) keeps mentioning that Marilyn's thumbprints are on her birth certificate - I have never heard of thumbprints being part of the certification process for births as well as saying that Marilyn was actually 42 when she died and mentions that she went to various places with Marilyn and Arthur Miller and before that Joe DiMaggio.
Amazingly though Nancy was going out in public with Marilyn, there are no photos of the two of them together - which to me says it all.
The writing of this book is disjointed and fragmentary and very difficult to read and again stretches the credibility of the author who states she is a published author, teacher and has a Masters degree in creative writing - if the style of writing is anything to go by I would say that she bought the masters on Ebay!!
The book would be funny if it wasn't so sad, this poor woman obviously believes what she has written, yet Marilyn's life has been so when chronicled and documented from birth to death that it is clear the author is delusional.
If I could give a rating of - I would as it goes I will give it 0.5.
No links as to where to buy this travesty - do not waste your money - save it for the second volume of Icon which is due out shortly
