Marianne Leone
Auteur van Ma Speaks Up: And a First Generation Daughter Talks Back
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Check out my review...http://shannonsbookbag.blogspot.com/2011/10/knowing-jesse-leone.html
Thanks to Book Club Cookbook for this book.
A fast moving book about a daughter's love and sometimes dislike for her very Italian mother and how she grew up with a mother who didn't speak good English and was embarrassed by her in many ways but loved her too in her own way. What made me laugh was even though she sent her daughter to Catholic school she was not very religious. A lot of homemade Italian food too and her mothers life after she and her father moved from Italy to MA
A fast moving book about a daughter's love and sometimes dislike for her very Italian mother and how she grew up with a mother who didn't speak good English and was embarrassed by her in many ways but loved her too in her own way. What made me laugh was even though she sent her daughter to Catholic school she was not very religious. A lot of homemade Italian food too and her mothers life after she and her father moved from Italy to MA
Marianne Leone has an outstanding talent for writing. She writes with humor and frankness that is endearing. In this book she talks about her relationship with her Italian immigrant mother and opens up to the reader about how unfair she was in judging her mother against the impossible Mrs. Cleaver expectations of the 1950s. This book has passages that you will read and re-read and then write down somewhere to remember. Highly recommended.
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- 3
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- 75
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- #235,804
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- 3.7
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- 29
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- 14
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- 1
On the whole, it seems like an interesting read, in a second-generation immigrant talking about and to her mother kind of way. Unfortunately, the narrative is so incredibly rambling and random, that it's quite hard to follow. There are definitely some very interesting stories in here somewhere, but I'm not sure why anyone who isn't directly related would take the time to try and untangle them.
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