
East Liberty
A fatherless boy is conflicted by his Catholic upbringing and his dreams in this coming-of-age novel
East Liberty is a poetic, passionate coming-of-age novel spanning 1955 to 1963, set in an Italian-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh. Roberto (Bobby) Renzo, the novel''s fatherless narrator and main character, lives with Francene Renzo, his beautiful, mysterious, and unconventional mother who gave ...
A fatherless boy is conflicted by his Catholic upbringing and his dreams in this coming-of-age novel
East Liberty is a poetic, passionate coming-of-age novel spanning 1955 to 1963, set in an Italian-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh. Roberto (Bobby) Renzo, the novel''s fatherless narrator and main character, lives with Francene Renzo, his beautiful, mysterious, and unconventional mother who gave ...