Angel Lupo grew up in a traditional Italian home — an exclusive club where Mama’s word was everything ... and where nice girls saved themselves for marriage. All Angel wanted was to be movie-star blond, change her name, and get as much attention as her prettier older sister Lina.
Now Angel is nearing thirty, penning Catholic greeting cards for a living, and still jealous of her sister, who has a house in the suburbs, two kids, and a husband who loves her. So Angel does the next best thing: She answers a personal ad.
Dirk Diederhoff is blond, teaches at Vassar, and is definitely not Italian. Nor is he the thrill-a-minute lover and soul mate Angel prays for. But as Lina, recklessly embarked on an affair of her own, would tell her: There are no perfect tens out there — only men who want you to talk to them in Italian during sex.
The award-winning author of Pink Slip gets the rituals and rhythms of domestic life just right in Sometimes I Dream in Italian, a bittersweet comedy about sisters, lovers, and a family that doesn’t quite translate.
“Poignant ... an old-fashioned tale about girls with old-fashioned dreams ... Angel and Lina will charm the reader.”
— USA Today
“Simultaneously blunt and artful ... Ciresi has a lovely ear for dialogue and the ability to nail the details in descriptions that are both funny and painfully accurate.”
— The New York Times Book Review
“Rita Ciresi has done it again. She’s written a book of fiction that wraps hopes and fears and lonesomeness and togetherness and gladness into one funny story after another.”
— Tampa Tribune-Times
“Precisely crafted and compelling ... honest and witty.”
— St. Petersburg Times
Also By Rita Ciresi:
Pink Slip
“This is Jane Austen in New York at the end of the 20th century.... Ciresi mixes the tragic and the comic aspects of love in hilarious fashion.”
— Tampa Tribune-Times
Blue Italian
“Biting humor ... tactile prose ... a vibrant tableau of marriage’s imperfections and redemptions.”
— Entertainment Weekly
Available from Dell
And look for
Mother Rocket
Coming in summer 2002
