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honored with a nomination for the American Library Association's Annual Lesbian/Gay Book Award for the year 2000. Hey Paesan! was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for best Lesbian/Gay anthology from a small press. It's the highest award given in gay publishing. |
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Reviews: "Hey Paesan! is food for the heart and the spirit, a great read." -- SF Bay Area Reporter, Nov. 1999 |
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This book offers special insights for Italian-American readers and writers, those who comfortably occupy the spotlight at family festivals as well as those who have migrated to cosmopolitan places far from Piccoli, Pennsylvania. -- Italian American Writers Assoc. (IAWA) |
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There are 45 stories, essays and poems by 41 authors in this unique collection. Consistently intriguing and informative, sometimes funny, sometimes sorrowful, with the real Italian knack for storytelling, these wonderful tales and discoveries by American writers of Italian parents or mixed marriages are pure inspiration. Many of the stories are about family or seeking roots and finding them. Or about the sorrow of being severed from one’s past by parents who abandoned their Italian heritage to become “American.” These grown children of immigrants accurately describe the social stigmas of class and race prejudice...while dealing with the double whammy: homosexuality in an intense (and mostly Catholic) home environment. By the way, don’t try to read this book on an empty stomach. Best to go into the kitchen and make yourself a big plate of pasta, because Italians are excellent at describing food. You will get hungry reading this book, but you will be satiated, too. Salute! —reviewed by Kate Hitt, Santa Cruz, CA, June 2000 |