| Night Bloom: An Italian-American Life Contributor(s): Cappello, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807072176 ISBN-13: 9780807072172 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $15.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 98019582 |
| Series: Bluestreak |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.67" W x 7.9" (0.61 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Italian - Sex & Gender - Lesbian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |