{"product_id":"night-bloom-isbn-9780807072172","title":"Night Bloom","description":"Of the mysterious Night Blooming Cereus, Mary Cappello writes: \"The flower fell into our neighborhood like a shooting star.\" That neighborhood was a working-class suburb of Philadelphia riven by class distinction and haunted by contradiction. In tracing the marks that immigration and assimilation have left on her Italian-American family, Cappello also offers us her family's unsung art-their gardens, letters, and rosary beads-for the lessons they teach us about desire, creativity, and loss.Cappello's writing shines and, like the flowers she cherishes, offers fleeting glimpses of beauty.--Sara Ivry, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this remarkable memoir, Mary Cappello explores the legacy of her family with not only grace of style but a kind of grace of being. . . . Fierce, honest, and deeply affecting.\"--Jay Parini, author of \u003ci\u003eBenjamin's Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cappello draws you deeply into her world and rewards you with rich description and sustained motifs. . . . She achieves an illumination that borders on epiphany.\"--Corene Lemaitre, Philadelphia City Paper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] story about . . . love's possibilities and impossibilities, and the beauty and danger that lurk in the garden of our lives.\"--Fred L. Gardaphe, \u003ci\u003eFra Noi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The literature of immigration has produced such notable works as the novels Giants in the Earth and Call It Sleep. . . . [Night Bloom] can take an honorable place among them.\"--Whitney Scott, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003eMary Cappello is associate professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300261449957,"sku":"NP9780807072172","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807072172.jpg?v=1767733710","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/night-bloom-isbn-9780807072172","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}