Found it! Finally!
I'd lost this volume going a third in, and couldn't find it even after putting the house on rear end and back again. As it usually happens, I found it about a month after I gave up, in a perfectly reasonable spot.
Anyway, onto the book itself: It used to be one of my mom's favorites on her early adolescence, which she recently found buried among a a bunch of thing of my grandparents. She cajoled me into reading it, and it was a good thing I gave in.
This collection's short stories aren't such as much as introspective vignettes, character studies more than plot, and while many would find that detracting, their excellency turns this volume into a great book.
The theme, while not overt, I would say is uprooting and estrangement. Plus a dose of coming of age in many cases. Very much autobiographic, as the author was an Italian immigrant.
It's a quick read, bittersweet, even depressing at times, if beautifully written. Very much worth it.
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