Title Where my body ends and the world begins / Tony Romano.

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Forest Park, IL : Allium Press of Chicago, [2017]

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Location	Call No.	Status
Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department	F ROMANO, T.	Storage
Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction	F ROMANO	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	F ROMANO, T.	Check Shelf

Description	241 pages ; 23 cm
Summary	On December 1, 1958, a devastating blaze at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago took the lives of ninety-two children, shattering a close-knit Italian neighborhood. In this eloquent novel, set nearly a decade later, twenty-year-old Anthony Lazzeri struggles with survivor's guilt, which is manifested through conflicted feelings about his own body. Complicating his life is a retired detective's dogged belief that Anthony was involved in the setting of the fire. Tony Romano's delicate handling of Anthony's journey is deeply moving, exploring the complex psychological toll such an event has on those involved, including families...and an entire community. This multi-faceted tale follows Anthony's struggles to come to terms with how the events of that day continue to affect him and those around him. Aided by a sometime girlfriend, a former teacher, and later his parents--after long buried family secrets are brought into the open--he attempts to piece together a life for himself as an adult.
Subject	Our Lady of the Angels School (Chicago, Ill.) -- Fire, 1958 -- Fiction.
	Italian Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction.
	Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction.
	Disaster victims -- Fiction.
	Psychic trauma -- Fiction.
	Our Lady of the Angels School (Chicago, Ill.) (OCoLC)fst00529192
	Our Lady of the Angels School Fire (Chicago, Illinois : 1958) (OCoLC)fst01353928
	Disaster victims. (OCoLC)fst00894774
	Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
	Italian Americans. (OCoLC)fst00980419
	Psychic trauma. (OCoLC)fst01081217
	Illinois -- Chicago. (OCoLC)fst01204048
Chronological Term	1958
Genre/Form	Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Historical fiction.
	Domestic fiction.
Other Form:	Online version: Romano, Tony, 1957- Where my body ends and the world begins. Forest Park, IL : Allium Press of Chicago, [2017] 9780996755887 (DLC) 2017046512
ISBN	9780996755870 (softcover)
	099675587X (softcover)

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