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- W118994160 abstract "When Tina De Rosa wrote her novel, Paper Fish, the room where she worked was haunted. Not by ghosts and goblins, but by childhood memories. To write the book, she had to let the emotions that came with those memories rush through her. Once again, she had to feel grief, loneliness, and bewilderment. The result is an extraordinary novel. Paper Fish is about an Italian-American family, certainly, but a lot more. It is about unspeakable suffering, discovery and healing, and the pro? cess of creating a new reality. It is a book about Carmolina BellaCasa. Her family is in pieces. Its members are overwhelmed by the 1950s socio-economic forces that have disordered their lives. Carmolina's father, Marco, is an overworked Chicago policeman who will always be a department peon because of his Italian heritage. Her Lithuanian mother, Sarah, feels disoriented amid her husband's culture. Carmolina's grandmother, who emigrated from Italy, escapes through stories. Weaving folklore with Christianity, she spins tales in an effort to order her life. Carmolina's sister, Doriana, can't speak. As an infant, she had a high fever that damaged her brain. She can scream, cry, and thrash against the ropes that bind her to her blue-sheeted bed. She is beautiful. She is angry. She is in pain. She represents the dispossession and suffering of De Rosa's bruised and broken characters. Doriana even serves as a metaphor for the history of the book itself. Paper Fish, too, was silenced for a while. It was published the first time sixteen years ago by a small house. Then it fell out of print, rejected as too literary to make money. But devotees kept it alive by photocopying it and giving it to scholars and other writers, until the Feminist Press revived it. The Zoro Neal Hurston of the Italian-American culture, Tina De Rosa is a pioneer. She has told an uncommon story in a unique voice. An" @default.
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- W118994160 title "Breaking the Silence: An Interview with Tina De Rosa" @default.
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