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All My Fallen Angelas is a collection of stories inspired by the lives of Italian-Canadian women living in Toronto from the 1960s to the present. The stories document their strength and resilience, their power and vulnerability as the women move in community that allowed their presence in shops, factories, and churches, but offered them little else for entertainment and self-exploration outside of their families. The stories cover a wide range...

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A young girl learns to overcome her jealousy of the girls next door as she begins to appreciate her bond with her grandmother.

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In her fourth book of poetry, this Canadian author of Italian ancestry returns to the themes of immigration and memory that characterised her first book. Gutsy and direct, her voice is also tender and humorous as her poems create small portraits of people in the midst of daily life.

This is the third collection of a trilogy on what the poet calls 'Italian women and other tragedies. A must for every Italian North American woman.

Daughters for Sale continues the author's journey begun in Italian Women and Other Tragedies, Gianna Patriarca's successful first collection of poems. Here is a compassionate search for understanding lives dislocated by the immigrant experience. Through humour, irony, anger, and reconciliation, Gianna Patriarca reveals the fragility and intensity of the unforgettable characters she meets. Their 'songs in dialect' arise from voices not accustom...

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This book is the first part of Patriarca's trilogy on Italian women. This book is in its third printing.