Night Bloom: An Italian-American Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807072172)

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.

Author: Mary Cappello
ISBN-10: 0807072176
ISBN-13: 9780807072172
Publisher: Beacon Press
Language: English
Published: 10/10/1999
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.67w x 0.57d