“Poignant ... an old-fashioned tale about girls with old-fashioned dreams ... Angel and Lina will charm the reader.” — USA Today “Simultaneously blunt and artful ... Ciresi has a lovely ear for dialogue and the ability to nail the details in descriptions that are both funny and painfully accurate.” — The New York Times Book Review “Rita Ciresi has done it again. She’s written a book of fiction that wraps hopes and fears and lonesomeness and togetherness and gladness into one funny story after another.” — Tampa Tribune-Times “Precisely crafted and compelling ... honest and witty.” — St. Petersburg Times Also By Rita Ciresi: Pink Slip “This is Jane Austen in New York at the end of the 20th century.... Ciresi mixes the tragic and the comic aspects of love in hilarious fashion.” — Tampa Tribune-Times Blue Italian “Biting humor ... tactile prose ... a vibrant tableau of marriage’s imperfections and redemptions.” — Entertainment Weekly Available from Dell And look for Mother Rocket Coming in summer 2002