"A moving blend of words and images, An Italian American Odyssey tells the story of the journey to America across seven generations of one Italian-American family.Drawing on a remarkable
collection of raw material��ragments of family letters, stories, diaries, and other writings, as well as photographs, collages, and assemblages of such humble objects as a pasta cutter,
mismatched kitchen chairs, and faded biancheria, or dowry linens��. Amore fashions a new encounter with American history, as a story retold and reimagined.Lavishly illustrated in full color,
the book is based on Amore�� multimedia exhibition Lifeline: filo della vita, which traveled with great acclaim from the Ellis Island Museum to Boston, Rome, and Naples. Woven throughout are
numerous interviews��n both English and Italian, as are many other documents��nd historic photographs from the Ellis Island archives. Also included are original essays by Pellegrino D��cierno,
Fred Gardaph癡, Jennifer Guglielmo, Edvige Giunta, Flavia Rando, Joseph Sciorra, and Robert Viscusi��ho take Amore�� art as a starting point for illuminating explorations of the immigrant
experience��rom the aesthetics of cultural memory and the persistence of ethnic identity to issues of gender, race, and generational change in Italian-American history and life. The book
includes an Italian translation of the full text.The book�� colorful, highly charged assemblages link two worlds, many generations, and one family�� journey to pasts shared by so many millions
of others. In its powerful words and images, the children and grandchildren of America�� immigrants can enter B. Amore�� world��nd in the process, rediscover their own."
