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Behind Closed Doors: Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily
Behind Closed Doors Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily Author:Maria Messina "These ten persuasive tales offer stark, finely drawn portraits of poor and middle-class Sicilian women. . . . What makes their plights affecting . . . [are] closely observed details and the small, telling incidents with which [Messina] involves us in their fate."-Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books"Virtually the only great Itali... more »an fiction about the massive Sicilian immigration to America written while it was happening. . . . Honed, polished, devastatingly direct."-BooklistNow available in paperback, Maria Messina's compelling stories provide rich portraits of Sicily and the lives of women in the early twentieth century, when large numbers of impoverished Sicilians fled to the United States.« less