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The Homecoming Party (2004)

by Carmine Abate(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1933372834 (ISBN13: 9781933372839)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Europa Editions

review 1: Another of my 'library A-Z' reads, this one, too is, a coming of age story (seems to be a thing with "A' authors?), it also pointed to the situation in sourthen Italy that many must go elsewhere for employment to support their family. This scenario of living apart to survive is foreign to me, as is the setting of the book, but the feeling of family bonds, rootedness, and 'playing the had your dealt' are familiar. Abate (a very good storyteller, btw) writes his tale with compassion and earnestness It was a joy to read, and one of the reasons I'll keep reading 'A-Z' - sometimes what we don't know delights us.
review 2: This is a very short coming-of-age novel, told in alternating chapters from the perspectives of Marco and his father Tullio. A lack of economic o... morepportunity in Tullios' small Italian village forced him to leave his family for long stretches of time to find work in France and Germany. Meanwhile, Marco always longed for his father's return. During one homecoming, sitting around a Christmas bonfire and telling stories to "burn their memories," the two bring out their secrets surrounding Marco's sister Elisa and her involvement with an older man. Although we see father and son bonding at the end of the novel, it is a bittersweet ending for the secrets revealed. less

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