Mount Allegro is an extraordinary memoir, a celebration of Sicilian life, an engaging sociological portrait, a moving reminiscence of a fledgling writer’s esc

This work begins with a boy named Geraldo growing up Sicilian in Rochester, New York, and ends with the author breakfasting with Eleanor Roosevelt in the White

The first novel to center on the father-daughter relationship in an Italian American family.

Memoir of the author's childhood years, growing up in a large extended family of Armenian immigrants to the U.S.