The “Fun” has begun!
Inspire holiday-gathering laughs and stories with a gift of this humorous book for your favorite Baby Boomer! It will transport you back like a DeLorean time machine, make you gasp, make you laugh, and remind you just how great it is to be a grown-up. And it will leave you thinking about the true meaning of family and friends.
“Fun with Nuns” by A.J. Caliendo grabs you by the throat with ferocious, hilarious nostalgia, but there’s a twist – at its heart is a deeply moving story about friendship and survival.” – Lila Shaara, author of The Fortune Teller’s Daughter
1960: Fifth grade, in a Catholic school in a blue-collar area of Western PA. There are bewildering rules everywhere for Italian-American ten-year-old Enzo—at school, at church, at home—almost all of which involve not talking, his Achilles’ heel.
It is the dawn of a new era, with the old one stubbornly clinging on. There are Latin Masses, confessionals, and penance. There is The Ed Sullivan Show and Gunsmoke. At home is a loutish big brother and a mean little grandfather. Thanks be to God, there is spaghetti. And there are nuns, of the (literally) old-school variety, armed with erasers, clickers, and rulers to keep their charges in line.
Many years later, Enzo reunites with a school friend whose life has been forever altered by a childhood tragedy. This irreverent and humorous fictional work is a look back at this singular time and place, without the rose-colored lenses.
Cover Art and Interior Design: www.GarethSouthwell.com
Illustrations: Sidney Wuenschell
