Title: The end
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.
Subjects: Ethnic neighborhoods, Italian American families, Italian Americans, Nineteen fifties, Fiction, Italian americans, fiction, United states, fiction, Fiction, historical, American Historical fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Ohio, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, general
Places: Ohio