TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - The end /
DA  - 2009.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Scibona, Salvatore.
ET  - 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
CN  - PS3619.C53
CN  - PS3619.C53
PB  - Riverhead Books,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2009.
N1  - Originally published: Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2008.
ID  - 337383
KW  - Italian Americans
KW  - Italian American families
KW  - Ethnic neighborhoods
KW  - Nineteen fifties
SN  - 9781594484056 (pbk.)
SN  - 1594484058 (pbk.)
TI  - The end /
ER  -