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Night Bloom:an Italian-american Life
[Paperback - 1999]
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Publisher: Beacon Press | ISBN: 9780807072172 | Pages: 280
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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.

Mary Cappello is associate professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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