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<p>Josephine Gattuso Hendin captures the New York Italian immigrant scene with startling precision, bringing to life the intricate web of a community's everyday transactions and exploring the multifaceted father-daughter relationship at the heart of the Italian American family. A coming-of-age novel that is both wryly funny and achingly sad, <b>The Right Thing to Do</b> burns with conflicting desires.</p> <br> <br> <p>Our for a stroll in his Queens neighborhood, Sicilian-born Nino Giardello glimpses his daughter, ambitious twenty-year-old Gina, heading for the subway. Silently, he follows her to Manhattan and watches, outraged, as she walks into the arms of a golden-haired stranger. The incident confirms Nino's worst suspicions about his decidely American daughter. It is also a challenge to Nino's power as capofamiglia, a disruption to his ideas about family life, and an insult to his heritage. In a struggle that exceeds all boundaries, including death, father and daughter will engage in a conflict of generations that is likewise a conflict of cultures.</p> <br> <br> <p>Nino and Gina illuminate the common experience of first- and second-generation immigrants as they grapple with a

Author

Hendin, Josephine Gattuso

Publisher

David R. Godine, Publisher

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9781558612204

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.71 / 5 (215 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14