Description: The plastic Pieta on top of the TV. The condiment dish shaped like a Venetian gondola. The crucifix studded with seashells . . . Years later, Angel and Lina Lupo would debate: what really was the most hideous thing in their parents' cramped and quintessentially Catholic house? And why couldn't they just forget about being Italian and have a "normal" American childhood?
Review Quotes: "Poignant ... an old-fashioned tale about girls with old-fashioned dreams ... Angel and Lina will charm the reader."
-- USA Today
-- The New York Times Book Review "Rita Ciresi has done it again. She's written a book of fiction that wraps hopes and fears and lonesomeness and togetherness and gladness into one funny story after another."
-- Tampa Tribune-Times "Precisely crafted and compelling ... honest and witty."
-- St. Petersburg Times Also By Rita Ciresi: Pink Slip
"This is Jane Austen in New York at the end of the 20th century.... Ciresi mixes the tragic and the comic aspects of love in hilarious fashion."
-- Tampa Tribune-Times Blue Italian
"Biting humor ... tactile prose ... a vibrant tableau of marriage's imperfections and redemptions."
-- Entertainment Weekly Available from Dell And look for Mother Rocket
Coming in summer 2002