Night Bloom: An Italian-American Life

Author/Contributor(s):	Cappello, Mary
Publisher:	Beacon Press
Date:	10/10/1999
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.