This is your classic immigrant novel about an Italian teenage boy who was forced to immigrate to America and your atypical Italian teenage girl who immigrated with her father in hopes of making money for their family back home in the Italian Alps. The beginning of this book had such potential and I was falling in love with the characters and their endearing personalities. Then they came to America and the book went downhill. If Trigiani had just stuck to the characters of Enzo and Ciro, the book would have been great; the characters development in the beginning was excellent.
But then the author moved the novel into less about the actual story and into more about the culture of Italians. Interesting, to be sure. There were just too many details in the things that don't even matter. All that extraneous detail, along with the length of the novel made it tedious at times. Many times. So much so that by the end of the book, I didn't actually care what happened to anyone, I just wanted the book to end.
I wanted to badly to give this book a raving review. And at points, I could have. Unfortunately, those parts that held the most potential were rushed and forced and written in such a way as to not make you really care.
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