Were You Always an Italian?
Subtitle: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780393321951
First sentence: ONCE MANY, MANY YEARS AGO, in a small village named Conza della Campania in the province of Avellino, my maternal great-grandfather Michele Conte fell in love with the younger of two daughters, but by tradition he was obligated to marry the older sister, Concetta.