When the World Was Young

Tony Romano

first published 2007 HarperCollins, 2007 hardcover 309 pages

It's the summer of 1957. In the heart of Chicago, first-generation Italian immigrants Angela Rosa and Agostino Peccatori are caught between worlds. Far from home and with five children born in the United States, the Peccatori family is left clinging to old country ways in an era of upending change. While Agostino spends his days running the neighborhood trattoria, Mio Fratello, Angela Rosa must face the building tens...

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When the World Was Young paperback · 2008 · Harper Perennial · 320 pages · 9780060857936
When the World Was Young edition · 2007 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061441448
When the World Was Young ebook · 2007 · HarperCollins · 9780061441417
When the World Was Young edition · 2007 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061441431
When the World Was Young edition · 2007 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061441462
When the World Was Young hardcover · 2007 · HarperCollins · 309 pages · 9780060857929
When the World Was Young edition · 2007 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061441455

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