Skillfully capturing the daily quirks of life in a boisterous, working-class ethnic family--daily assaulted by family clamor, endless courses of food, embarrassment and fierce love--Blue Italian trace
No one blends humor and heartbreak like RitaCiresi, whose award-winning novels are lauded as much for their generous wit as for their unflinching honesty. Ciresi's crowd-pleasing novel, Pink Slip, ca
As children, Angel and Lina Lupo want nothing more than to escape their Italian-American Catholic upbringing for a "normal" American childhood, but as they deal with the challenges of adult relationsh
Lisa Diodetto's mother may be ready for her to get married but Lisa isn't. At her sister's wedding she ducks when the bridal bouquet comes floating her way, and the only "eligible bachelor" in Lisa's