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Night Bloom

An Italian-American Life

Mary Cappello

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English
Beacon Press
01 September 2018
Series: Bluestreak
"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."

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Imprint:   Beacon Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   9
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 137mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   283g
ISBN:   9780807072172
ISBN 10:   0807072176
Series:   Bluestreak
Pages:   280
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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

Reviews for Night Bloom: An Italian-American Life

Cappello's writing shines and, like the flowers she cherishes, offers fleeting glimpses of beauty.--Sara Ivry, New York Times Book Review In this remarkable memoir, Mary Cappello explores the legacy of her family with not only grace of style but a kind of grace of being. . . . Fierce, honest, and deeply affecting.--Jay Parini, author of Benjamin's Crossing Cappello draws you deeply into her world and rewards you with rich description and sustained motifs. . . . She achieves an illumination that borders on epiphany.--Corene Lemaitre, Philadelphia City Paper [A] story about . . . love's possibilities and impossibilities, and the beauty and danger that lurk in the garden of our lives.--Fred L. Gardaphe, Fra Noi The literature of immigration has produced such notable works as the novels Giants in the Earth and Call It Sleep. . . . [Night Bloom] can take an honorable place among them.--Whitney Scott, Booklist


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