Well-written but odd story about an Italian-American family in Chicago in the mid-20th century. Episodic and free-floating in time, it tells of three generations interacting and paints a vivid picture of Chicago's Little Italy of the era.
If you want to understand Italian immigrant life in America, this is the book to turn to. It reads like a novel, but it is very much an anthropological study of Italian American life. It was darker than I had anticipated, but welcome.
