Sicilian Dreams - (VIA Folios) by Vincent Panella (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Fiction. Italian American Studies. Ever wonder about the step-by-step of the lives of forebearers in homelands lost, left & returned to? About what life was really like in all fullness & detail, real & frail, on both ends? Wish for unforced narrative in explosive situations, redolent of family, betrayal and murder? Imagine instead of a bridge across the ocean, separating life there and life here, a tunnel connecting great characters & ideas, all of a piece & seamless? Panella beams us in.--Anthony Valerio

Review Quotes

Ever wonder about the step-by-step of the lives of forebearers in homelands lost, left & returned to? About what life was really like in all fullness & detail, real & frail, on both ends? Wish for unforced narrative in explosive situations, redolent of family, betrayal and murder? Imagine instead of a bridge across the ocean, separating life there and life here, a tunnel connecting great characters & ideas, all of a piece & seamless? Panella beams us in. Do you like your novel fleshed, full-blown, mysterious, and magical? Well, then, leave the gun & pasta & tears, take the cannoli and read Vincent Panella's excellent novel, "Sicilian Dreams."

--ANTHONY VALERIO

Vincent Panella intimately and intricately brings the Italian immigrant experience to life. Here, characters possess a profound and necessary hunger for new life yet are tethered to the mores and myths of the old one. "Sicilian Dreams" is a magnificent accomplishment, a tale of coming-of-age, vengeance, violence, desperation, and aspiration while at the same time a work of pure beauty.

--LAURETTE FOLK