Big Brains and Broken Hearts - Rosanova, Michael J
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Upwardly mobile father born into an impoverished Italian immigrant neighborhood succeeds in becoming a medical doctor and moving his family to an upper middle class suburb. His children attend Irish Catholic schools where they are stereotyped and excluded, but succeed academically. One of the children has Down's syndrome. Family dynamics depend on grief and embarrassment and duty. One dutiful son is in denial, closeted, and married. He is an obsessive student who gets into Yale. He finds his way to Naples in search of his true identity and the world that his grandparents lost by coming to…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Upwardly mobile father born into an impoverished Italian immigrant neighborhood succeeds in becoming a medical doctor and moving his family to an upper middle class suburb. His children attend Irish Catholic schools where they are stereotyped and excluded, but succeed academically. One of the children has Down's syndrome. Family dynamics depend on grief and embarrassment and duty. One dutiful son is in denial, closeted, and married. He is an obsessive student who gets into Yale. He finds his way to Naples in search of his true identity and the world that his grandparents lost by coming to America and integrating into the American middle class. In his fifties he loses everything and then rebuilds a new life as an Italian American and gay.
Autorenporträt
January 25, 1950. It was a Wednesday. It was snowing. St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital, Division Street at Leavitt. Polish nuns, refugees from the War or not, heads wrapped in white wimpels, topped by flight-worthy origami. One of the first things Mike could see as his newborn eyes began to focus: Sister Anonymous, one of Mike's mother's teachers in the nursing school. She knew Mike's father, a Taylor Street kid who had graduated from the U of I Med School in the Class of '38, a few years before America joined the War. Internship at St. Mary's. He was still doing rounds there and carrying his black leather house calls bag around with him that snowy January 25th. Bought a three flat at Central and North, and opened his first office there, a few streets north and more than a few west of of St. Mary's on Division, about ten minutes east of Oak Park and a house big enough to house six kids and a grandma and grampa in a neighborhood of lace curtains and proper northern Europeans. Catholic ones, mostly. Not used to the company of garlic-eaters.Mike was meant to be a middle class Catholic school boy. Parish school. Local Catholic high school for boys..Great at spelling. Top grades. Hard worker. Remarkably sickly kid for a doctor's family. Football team? Notre Dame? Med School at U of I? But then there was Yale. But then there was Naples.Big brains. Broken hearts. Excerpts from a life.