{"product_id":"9781596917668","title":"Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family","description":"During Louise DeSalvo's childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise's step-grandmother insists on recreating the domestic habits of her Southern Italian peasant upbringing, clashing with Louise's convenience-food-loving mother; Louise, meanwhile, dreams of cooking perfect fresh pasta in her own kitchen. But as Louise grows up to indulge in amazing food and travels to Italy herself, she arrives at a fuller and more compassionate picture of her own roots. And, in the process, she reveals that our image of the bounteous Italian American kitchen may exist in part to mask a sometimes painful history. \u003cbr\u003eLouise DeSalvo is a writer, professor, lecturer, and scholar who lives in New Jersey. Her many books include the memoirs \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBreathless\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAdultery\u003c\/i\u003e; the acclaimed biography \u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on her Life and Work\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWriting as a Way of Healing\u003c\/i\u003e. Recently, she edited Woolf's early novel \u003ci\u003eMelymbrosia\u003c\/i\u003e and coedited \u003ci\u003eThe Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003eA Book Sense 76 pick in hardcover \u003cbr\u003e\"Louise DeSalvo packs about six courses of emotional wallop into her slim memoir...[A] tough, courageous story, one of hard-won wisdom and memory.\"-\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Illuminate[s] the difficulties of reconciling past and present...DeSalvo celebrates the table of her ancestors by savoring her own rediscovered history.\"-\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173229412592,"sku":"9781596917668","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781596917668_p0.jpg?v=1763814107","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781596917668","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}