Works of Influence

Allen, Gilbert. Second Chances. Orchises Press, 1991.

Barzini, Luigi. The Italians. Touchstone, 1996.

Di BiAse, John. Growing Up Italian American. AuthorHouse, 2005.

Di Donato, Pietro. Christ in Concrete. Signet Classics, New American Library, Penguin Putnam, Inc., 1993.

Fante, John. Wait Until Spring, Bandini. Black Sparrow Books, 1983.

Hamill, Pete. Why Sinatra Matters. Little, Brown and Company, 1998.

Haruf, Kent. Plainsong. Vintage, 2000.

Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies. Mariner Books, 1999.

La Rocca Maresca, Arlene. Bread upon the Water. Alcantara Press, 1993.

Maggio, Theresa. Mattanza: Love and Death in the Sea of Sicily. Perseus Publishing, 2002.

Mangione, Jerre. La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience. Harper Perennial, 1993.

Mathias, Elizabeth. “The Italian-American Funeral: Persistence through Change”. Western Folklore. Edited by Don Yoder, Volume XXXIII, Number 1, January 1974, pp. 35-50. http://www.italianancestry.com/mathias/

Maulucci, Anthony. The Rosselli Cantata: A Brief Family Chronicle. Lorenzo Press, 2001.

Talese, Gay. Unto the Sons. Knopf, 1992.

Tonelli, Bill. The Amazing Story of the Tonelli Family in America. Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1994.