The Right Thing to Do A Novel Author:Josephine Hendin, Joesphine Gattuso Hendin Out of a stroll in his Queens neighborhood, Sicilian-born Nino Giardello glimpses his daughter, ambitious nineteen-year-old Gina, heading for the subway. Silently, he followes her to Manhattan and watches, outraged, as she walks into the arms of a golden-haired stranger. The incident confirms Nino's worst suspicions about his decidedly American ... more »daughter. It is also a challenge to Nino's power as capofamiglia, a disruption to his ideas about family life, and an insult to his heritage. In a struggle that exceeds all boundaries, including death, father and daughter will engage in a conflict of generations that is likewise a conflict of cultures. "The right thing to do effectively portrays both New York's italian immigrant milieu and one man's rage at his own powerlessness in the face of his child's hunger for life". Booklist "Hendin's novelistic skill emerges in her portrait of the tyrannical father Nino-one of the memorable characters of recent fiction." Alix Kates Shulman« less