The end
By: Salvatore Scibona
Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781594484056
Subjects: Ethnic neighborhoods; Italian American families; Italian Americans; Nineteen fifties; Fiction
Description: It is August 15, 1953, the day of a street carnival in the Italian enclave of Elephant Park, Ohio, when Rocco LaGrassa receives an excruciating piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in Korea.  Against the background of immigration, broken loyalties, and racial hostility, the story presents everything Rocco sees through the eyes of various characters in the crowd.
Notes: Originally published: [Saint Paul, Minn.] : Graywolf Press, 2008.