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I Love You Like a Tomato

Marie Giordano

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

Rating: 3.78 | 568 Users | 82 Reviews

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Original Title:	I Love You Like a Tomato
ISBN:	0765345889 (ISBN13: 9780765345882)
Edition Language:	English

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ChiChi Maggiordino will do anything to get God's attention. She will hold her breath, stand on tiptoe for an hour, walk a mile backward, climb all stairs on her knees... anything. When her grandmother teaches her how to use the Evil Eye, telling her it's how Jesus Christ made his miracles and how the Italians got rid of Mussolini, ChiChi realizes it's what her prayers have been missing. Now she can get started on the business of making her mother happier by helping her find love, and healing her brother's weak lungs.

But ChiChi's family lives in Minneapolis, and it's the 1950s. For an Italian immigrant family, sometimes it seems like nothing can make life easier. ChiChi's mother still pines for her husband, a long-dead American soldier; ChiChi's brother is disdainful of her sacrifices and penance-he doesn't understand what his older sister already knows, that sometimes God needs to be bribed.

When her grandmother passes away, ChiChi steps up her search for meaning and happiness, but it seems to be fruitless. And she struggles, the way so many women do, because her love for her family is suffocating, even while it fulfills her.

It's not until she meets two Italian dwarves, and they teach her of the ancient clown tradition, the commedia dell'arte, that she comes to understand that in order to make everyone else happy, she herself must be happy.

But first she must find her own way in the world... and learn to accept that not even the power of the Evil Eye can keep people from changing.

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Title	:	I Love You Like a Tomato
Author	:	Marie Giordano
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	April 19th 2004 by Pan Macmillan South Africa (first published 2003)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Book Club

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Ratings: 3.78 From 568 Users | 82 Reviews

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I'm so glad I happened to stumble across this one at the library.

I really loved this book! I liked the first person, the mix of Italian phrases and all of the Italian references. It is a sweet story, through the eyes of an immigrant girl. I enjoyed Marie's writing style, very poetic at times. I read it in a day and a half, it just wouldn't let me put it down. I was literally excited to come home from work and get to it.

This was a very good book. There were parts where I wanted to jump up and down and other parts where I wanted to just sob. I loved the books honesty about what was going on. The only thing that I was not wild about was the closeness of the brother and sister near the end.- She describes him in a way that you might describe someone you were attracted to and the people that she ended up with didn't even get that much fanfare. It was a bit creepy, when they were older, but overall this was an

A thick book (the beginning of a trilogy, apparently) about a family of Italian immigrants to Minnesota, told through the lens of a young girl who struggles with racism against Italians, poverty, and dealing with thinking she needs to hold the world together. It took me a little while to get the hang of the language--in the beginning it was written from a little girl perspective with a lot of Italian thrown in -but I did end up quite enjoying the characters and story. I didn't realize it was a

I loved reading about Northeast Minneapolis's Italian immigrant community in the post-WWII era. I thought the close relationship between the narrator and her younger brother, and how it changed over time, was well drawn and convincing. The portrayal of her mother was somehow unflinching and yet sympathetic--very skillfully developed. My only disappointment is my typical one with any book published by Forge (an imprint of Tor): either they don't hire proofreaders, or they pay so badly they don't

The Beechview Library did a fun thing where they wrapped books in brown paper and put only the first line of the book on the wrapping. So you picked your book based on an intriguing first line, rather than title, author, blurb or picture on the cover. I couldn't resist this first line: "I was asleep when the world began." I did end up liking this book pretty well. It's a coming of age story about a poor Italian immigrant girl in the 1950s, with a train wreck of a mother and a sickly little

It's taken me a while to even be able to write a review of this book. Masterpiece. Bloodletting. You see, its the first book ever to make me sob.I was handed this book by my glowing 13 year old daughter on Mother's Day. The twinkle in her eyes spelled victory as soon as the smile broke out on my face because the moment she spotted it in the bargain bin at the used bookstore she knew that "I love you like a tomato" would be added to our secret language, collected from books throughout all her