@article{1492491,
      note = {"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.},
      author = {Lahiri, Jhumpa, and Portnowitz, Todd,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1492491},
      title = {Roman stories /},
      abstract = {"In "The Boundary," a family vacations in the Roman  countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of  the caretaker's daughter, who nurses a wound from her  family's immigrant past. In "PP's Parties," a Roman couple,  now empty nesters, find comfort and community with  foreigners at their friend's yearly birthday gathering  until the husband crosses a line. And in "The Steps," on a  public staircase that connects two neighborhoods and the  residents who climb up and down it, we see Italy's capital  in all of its social and cultural variegations, filled with  the tensions of a changing city: visibilityy and  invisibility, random acts of aggression, the challenge of  straddling worlds and cultures, and the meaning of home."},
      recid = {1492491},
      pages = {204 pages ;},
}