Works

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 This culturally rich first novel tells the story of Giulia Di Cuore, a first-generation Italian-American woman struggling with the old-world values of her father, a psychiatrist, as she discovers her place in the world as a daughter, as a woman and as an American. 

 From the first days the baby was out of her body, Mary treated Natassia like a foreign-exchange student, someone who was purportedly interesting but who, in truth, was merely skirting the edges of the real business of Mary’s life. What Mary needed to do was get back to dancing seriously again.