A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself. Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate. Sofia Colicchio...
Italian American families
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Auteur:Krupitsky, NaomiSommaire: - Auteur:Scibona, SalvatoreSommaire:
It is August 15, 1953, the day of a street carnival in the Italian enclave of Elephant Park, Ohio, when Rocco LaGrassa receives an excruciating piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in Korea. Against the background of...
- Auteur:Anselmi, Andrew EustaceSommaire:
Edward Bennett does not understand his Italian immigrant mother's overprotectiveness, and, while studying abroad, he vows to solve the puzzle by finding her native town in southern Italy that she has refused to revisit.
- Auteur:Napolitano, AnnSommaire:
William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him-so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it's as if the...
