Machine generated contents note: ch. Thirty-Three The Real Italian. ch. One Two Kinds of Italians -- ch. Two They Thought I was Spicoli -- ch. Three Sharp-Dressed Man -- ch. Four The Empty Set -- ch. Five How Was Your Day? -- ch. Six O Fortuna! -- ch. Seven The Smallest Ass at the Family Reunion -- ch. Eight I'm Not One of You -- ch. Nine Wonder Woman, the Brides of Dracula, and Dad -- ch. Ten Hulk Lonely, Hulk Want Friend -- ch. Eleven Christmas with the Addams Family -- ch. Twelve Marina Dazzo -- ch. Thirteen She May Be a Nazi, But She's Hot -- ch. Fourteen Behind the Green Door -- ch. Fifteen The Volcano People of Vesuvius -- ch. Sixteen The Awesome Blossom -- ch. Seventeen The Good Jesuit -- ch. Eighteen Sweep the Leg -- pt. II ANUPTAPHOBIA -- ch. Nineteen The Kindness of Strangers -- ch. Twenty Neutered Pepe le Pew and the Stench of Desperate Need -- ch. Twenty-One The Gooseberry -- ch. Twenty-Two Arwen and Damien -- ch. Twenty-Three Praying the Rosary on Prom Night -- INTERLUDE I -- ch. Twenty-Four Death by the Side of the Road -- ch. Twenty-Five Shabbos Goy -- ch. Twenty-Six The Cigarette-Ash Heart -- pt. III PASSEGGIATA -- ch. Twenty-Seven Where's Caligula? -- ch. Twenty-Eight Frenemy of the State -- ch. Twenty-Nine STD Night -- INTERLUDE II -- ch. Thirty Lost in Siena -- ch. Thirty-One There Are No Ossuaries on Staten Island ... that I Know of -- ch. Thirty-Two The Impenetrable Fortress of Montalcino -- ch. Thirty-Three The Real Italian.
Summary:
"New York, 1987: In a city torn apart by racial tension, Damien Cavalieri is an adolescent without a tribe. His mother-who pines for the 1950s Brooklyn Italian community she grew up in-fears he lacks commitment to his heritage. Damien's fellow Staten Islanders agree, dubbing him a "fake Italian" and bullying him for being artistic. Complicating matters, his efforts to make friends and date girls outside of the Italian community are thwarted time and again by circumstances beyond his control. When a tragic accident shakes Damien to his core, he begins a journey of self-discovery that will lead him to Italy, where he will learn, once and for all, who he really is"-- Provided by publisher.
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