Sometimes I Dream in Italian: A Novel

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Angel Lupo grew up in a traditional Italian home, where Mama's word was everything and where nice girls saved themselves for marriage. All Angel wanted was to be a movei-star blond, change her name and get as much attention as her prettier older sister. Now 30, and still jealous of her sister, Angel answers a personal ad...

Reviews

Poignant ... an old-fashioned tale about girls with old-fashioned dreams ... Angel and Lina will charm the reader.
USA Today

Simultaneously blunt and artful ... Ciresi has a lovely ear for dialogue and the ability to nail the details in descriptions that are both funny and painfully accurate.
The New York Times Book Review

Rita Ciresi has done it again. Shes written a book of fiction that wraps hopes and fears and lonesomeness and togetherness and gladness into one funny story after another.
Tampa Tribune-Times

Precisely crafted and compelling ... honest and witty.
St. Petersburg Times


Also By Rita Ciresi:

Pink Slip
This is Jane Austen in New York at the end of the 20th century.... Ciresi mixes the tragic and the comic aspects of love in hilarious fashion.
Tampa Tribune-Times

Blue Italian
Biting humor ... tactile prose ... a vibrant tableau of marriages imperfections and redemptions.
Entertainment Weekly

Available from Dell

And look for

Mother Rocket

Coming in summer 2002

Author Bio

Rita Ciresi is the author of Mother Rocket, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and the novels Pink Slip and Blue Italian. She lives with her husband and daughter in Florida.