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Most Precious Blood
Fans of Anne Tyler’s quirky characters and her attention to family life, or Pete Hamill’s depiction of diverse, ethnic, urban neighborhoods will connect to Most Precious Blood, set in the eleventh-hour of a declining Italian-American neighborhood where complex and often destructive loyalties have dire consequences. Hard Luck Lenny is the quintessential good son, brother, and father, and he fears a calamity will derail his son’s future the way his own dreams were derailed years ago, but Frankie is preoccupied with thoughts of Gennaro DiCico, the son of a small-time mobster. Lenny’s fears are realized when a cabdriver’s son avenges his father’s murder.
This book’s characters, and their neighborhood, will stay with readers long after they finish it.
Sgambati paints a vivid portrait of Italian-American life in present day Queens where the past weighs heavier than the present. At once tragic and redemptive, Most Precious Blood is essentially a story of the messy way love, community and family play out and the price we pay for connection.
Most Precious Blood approaches the concept of “being known” from different angles: physical appearance, surname, a family’s country of origin, home residence, occupation, gender, age, skin colour, ethnicity. The author reminds readers that most of these identifiers are manmade, arbitrary, and mutable.
To read Most Precious Blood is to become closely acquainted not only with Lenny and Frankie’s neighborhood, but with their ancestry, their love, and their food
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Details
Dimensions:
278 Pages
9in * 6in * 0.2in
420gr
Published:
March 01, 2018
City of Publication:
Hamilton
Country of Publication:
CA
Publisher:
ISBN:
9781771833066
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Language:
eng
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