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As children, Angel and Lina Lupo want nothing more than to escape their Italian-American Catholic upbringing, but as they deal with the challenges of adult relationships, romances, and the future, they rediscover the value of family bonds and love.
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Praise for Rita Ciresi's 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
"It's refreshing to find a female narrator with an authentically lusty voice--someone who swears, talks back to tiresome relatives and doesn't shy away from her own sexuality. It's even more refreshing to find a heroine who can make a mean eggplant Parmesan yet disdains the humble domestic goals her old-world mother has set for her.
Rita Ciresi has created just such a heroine in Pink Slip."
-- The New York Times Book Review
"Pink Slip mixes lust, corporate shenanigans and the dangers of writing tell-all books....Ciresi's humor has an edgy Nora Ephron quality; her heroine is flawed enough to be endearing."
-- St. Petersburg Times
"Wit and humor are the keys to this lively novel....You'll break a sweat."
-- Mademoiselle
"Ms. Ciresi's wonderful prose and generous heart work together pitch perfectly here to render what we all hope for: a good love story."
-- Bret Lott
From the Inside Flap:
"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
"It's refreshing to find a female narrator with an authentically lusty voice--someone who swears, talks back to tiresome relatives and doesn't shy away from her own sexuality. It's even more refreshing to find a heroine who can make a mean eggplant Parmesan yet disdains the humble domestic goals her old-world mother has set for her.
Rita Ciresi has created just such a heroine in Pink Slip."
-- The New York Times Book Review
"Pink Slip mixes lust, corporate shenanigans and the dangers of writing tell-all books....Ciresi's humor has an edgy Nora Ephron quality; her heroine is flawed enough to be endearing."
-- St. Petersburg Times
"Wit and humor are the keys to this lively novel....You'll break a sweat."
-- Mademoiselle
"Ms. Ciresi's wonderful prose and generous heart work together pitch perfectly here to render what we all hope for: a good love story."
-- Bret Lott
imed novels Blue Italian and Pink Slip,Rita Ciresi dazzled both readers and critics with her graceful storytelling and wise, witty insight into the lives of women. Now Ciresi goes home: in a resonant, lovingly written story of two sisters, one family, and the memories of childhood that slip away--only to hold us forever.
The plastic Pietà on top of the TV. The condiment dish shaped like a Venetian gondola. The crucifix studded with seashells... Years later, Angel and Lina Lupo would debate: What really was the most hideous thing in their parents' cramped and quintessentially Catholic house? And why couldn't they just forget about being Italian and have a "normal" American childhood? As the sisters argue, memories of their shared past come flooding back: a flirtation with the butcher's cousin, a mysterious photograph of a beautiful woman they once found in their father's drawer, a church-sponsored trip to the Statue of Liberty that detoured into the
The plastic Pietà on top of the TV. The condiment dish shaped like a Venetian gondola. The crucifix studded with seashells... Years later, Angel and Lina Lupo would debate: What really was the most hideous thing in their parents' cramped and quintessentially Catholic house? And why couldn't they just forget about being Italian and have a "normal" American childhood? As the sisters argue, memories of their shared past come flooding back: a flirtation with the butcher's cousin, a mysterious photograph of a beautiful woman they once found in their father's drawer, a church-sponsored trip to the Statue of Liberty that detoured into the
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0786230800
- ISBN 13 9780786230808
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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