Night Bloom
By Mary Cappello
By Mary Cappello
Part of Bluestreak
Category: Biography & Memoir
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$16.00
Oct 10, 1999 | ISBN 9780807072172
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Praise
Cappello’s writing shines and, like the flowers she cherishes, offers fleeting glimpses of beauty.–Sara Ivry, New York Times Book Review
“In this remarkable memoir, Mary Cappello explores the legacy of her family with not only grace of style but a kind of grace of being. . . . Fierce, honest, and deeply affecting.”–Jay Parini, author of Benjamin’s Crossing
“Cappello draws you deeply into her world and rewards you with rich description and sustained motifs. . . . She achieves an illumination that borders on epiphany.”–Corene Lemaitre, Philadelphia City Paper
“[A] story about . . . love’s possibilities and impossibilities, and the beauty and danger that lurk in the garden of our lives.”–Fred L. Gardaphe, Fra Noi
“The literature of immigration has produced such notable works as the novels Giants in the Earth and Call It Sleep. . . . [Night Bloom] can take an honorable place among them.”–Whitney Scott, Booklist
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