Bensonhurst Sutra: Tales of an Italian American Buddhist

The book is full of stories about her place in her traditional family, where her father was the intellectual, her mother the traditional housewife and her sister the older sister who never got the nurturing she needed. As the favored child with a wobbly sense of her own power, DeLuca chronicles her development as a writer and painter, her teaching life, her marital struggles, and her yearning for...