Night Bloom
, by Cappello, MaryNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780807072172 | 0807072176
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 10/10/1999
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.