Book 2010

The End

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Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2010

Ethnic neighborhoods
Italian American families
Italian Americans
Nineteen fifties
Fiction
Italian americans, fiction
United states, fiction
Fiction, historical

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.