The Right Thing to Do
A New York novel centered on the father-daughter bond in an Italian immigrant family.
Work Information
It traces immigrant family tensions and responsibility.
Josephine Gattuso Hendin portrays Italian immigrant life and a father-daughter relationship with sharp detail.
Book Information
- Publisher
- David R. Godine, Publisher
- Published
- 1998-03-01
- Pages
- 211 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 17.22 x 1.52 x 25.2 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780879236397
- ISBN-10
- 0879236396
- Price
- 16817 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary
On a stroll in his Queens neighborhood, Sicilian-born Nino Giardello glimpses his daughter, ambitious nineteen-year-old Gina, heading for the subway. Silently, he follows her to Manhattan and watches, outraged, as she walks into the arms of a golden-haired stranger. The incident confirms Nino's worst suspicions about his decidedly American daughter. It also challenges Nino's power as capofamiglia, a disruption to his ideas about family life, and an insult to his heritage. In a struggle that exceeds all boundaries, including death, father and daughter will engage in a conflict of generations that is likewise a conflict of cultures.