The "Family" in turn-of-the-century America was Papa Russo, Mama Russo and their daughter Antonia. Or Papa Colicchio, Mama Colicchio and their two daughters, Sofia and her sister. The father goes to work, while the two mothers, who are neighbors, in a Brooklyn still partly deserted, raise their daughters, exchange recipes, and tell each other their secrets, talk about their so good husbands.
But the "Family" is something else. It is Carlo Russo, fresh emigrated from Sicily, it is Giuseppe Colicchio and it is Tommy Fianzo, the generous "uncle", who gathers the whole family (all families) in his large apartment in Manhattan, and takes apart the fathers, advises them, while his wife embraces all the mothers and teaches them the good recipes of her mother.
It will be understood that Naomi Krupitsky's first novel, amazing, is a book about a "double family", as Balzac would have said, about the family and the family, a story about the Mafia. But the Mafia...
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