Paper fish
By: by Tina De Rosa ; afterword by Edvige Giunta.
Edition: 1st Feminist Press ed.
Publisher: The Feminist Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Italian American families -- Fiction.; Italian Americans -- Fiction.; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
Description: Life in an Italian neighborhood in 1940s Chicago. The protagonists are an Italian-American policeman, his Lithuanian wife, two daughters and a mother-in-law. One girl is given to fantasy and when the parents consider sending her to an institution, the sister runs away in a gesture of solidarity, forcing the parents to reconsider. A first novel.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-157).