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Dancing on Sunday Afternoons by Linda Cardillo

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By Linda Cardillo

“I had husbands.” the invention of long-hidden love letters leads manhattan caterer Cara Serafini on a trip to realizing her ambitious grandmother, Giulia Fiorillo. Born in a mountain village in southern Italy, the lively Giulia arrives on the age of 16 in a coarse manhattan immigrant local initially of the 20th century, pressured from the comforts and constrictions of her kin by way of the fierce force of her mom. In the United States, Giulia faces not just an inhospitable tradition but in addition violence within the relatives and within the streets, shattering loss and a love that shapes her entire lifestyles.

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Severia, the young woman who'd been my tour guide, was the schoolteacher in the vil age. I was stunned when she told me she was only twenty. Like Emma, and nearly every other woman in the vil age, she was dressed in a severe black dress that extended below her knees. She wore her hair in the style of my mother's generation. The vil age was a grid of two or three streets clinging to the side of the mountain. Only the main road from Avel ino that continued farther up the mountain was paved. Few of the stone buildings had electricity, and al of them showed the ravages of centuries of wind and earthquake.

At noon, Giuseppina cal ed me in for soup and bread and I washed the earth from my hands in the bucket outside the kitchen door. After siesta, I played with my little brothers and we ate figs from Giuseppina's tree. Every day I also went to visit my mother, and when she was feeling better she began to question me about what I'd learned from the nuns. I didn't think it was much. My letters, my prayers, my sums. I recited for my mother, read to her from the prayer book she'd given me at my First Communion, showed her the smal piece of embroidery I had begun—blue corn-flowers, along a border.

She turned toward the door and reached out her hand. I was glad Reverend Mother had prepared me, but even so, her bruised and swol en face and the black-and-blue marks on her arm appal ed me. She looked as if someone had beaten her, and then I remembered the stone steps in Letitia's house. I went to her, put the hydrangea on the floor and threw my arms around her, careful of the IV and reluctant to hold her too tightly for fear of hurting her sore body. " she whispered. I sat on the side of her bed and she stroked my hair, by now flying out of its ponytail.

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