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Skillfully capturing the daily quirks of life in a boisterous, working-class ethnic family—daily assaulted by family clamor, endless courses of food, embarrassment and fierce love—Blue Italian traces the pitfalls of the young life and three-year marriage of a wise-cracking and heart-winning heroine, Rosa Salvatore. With an ear for acid dialogue and an eye for everyday ironies, Ciresi unfolds Rosa Salvatore's tale: growing up on fantasies, guilt, and fagioli in the New Haven working-class Italian neighborhood of Pizza Beach; working her way through a local college by slinging hash, while agonizing over her thighs and aching for passion; landing a job and meeting Gary Fisher, a nice Jewish lawyer from Flushing with a great butt and angst of his own. Rosa and Gary fall in love, make love, get married, fight, make up, fight again—until Gary is diagnosed with a terminal illness, and Rosa realizes the power of her love—and the crushing force of regret.
Frank and warm, crackling with razor-sharp wit, Blue Italian is a love story about an ill-fated couple who almost missed realizing how much they loved each other. It establishes Rita Ciresi as a writer with a unique gift for language, character, and emotion—a novelist to read, and a novelist to watch.
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Jeff Walker
reviewed Blue Italian on December 30, 2011
Blue Italian
Blue Italian is so moving, so different in tone from Rita Ciresi's later novels. It's the type of book you know the ending by the second chapter, and as I kept reading it was like prodding a scab. Did I really want to continue watching Rosa fall in love with Gary? Did I want to see what they go they go through before he ultimately succumbs from cancer (not really a spoiler -- most of the novel is told in flashback, and as I mentioned earlier, it talks about his death in the second chapter)? Then again, how can I envy somebody this marvelous courtship--and later relationship--knowing it's all going to end? Ciresi deals liberal doses of bitter, with more salty than sweet tempering the story. Gary is the quintessential guy who won't stop telling stories about his life, and Rosa is the cliched insecure woman who is embarrassed by everything she wishes others wouldn't do. Despite their quirks, they fall in love, in a very realistic and not glossy way. As Rosa put it, "How could I have married you?...How could I not have?"
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