Description
Of the mysterious Night Blooming Cereus, Mary Cappello writes: "The flower fell into our neighborhood like a shooting star." That neighborhood was a working-class suburb of Philadelphia riven by class distinction and haunted by contradiction. In tracing the marks that immigration and assimilation have left on her Italian-American family, Cappello also offers us her family's unsung art-their gardens, letters, and rosary beads-for the lessons they teach us about desire, creativity, and loss.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Book Details
Format
Kindle
Language
English
Published
Jan 17, 2001
Publisher
Beacon Press
Editions
2 editions
ISBN-10
0807046582
ISBN-13
9780807046586