Paradise Salvage

The cover is entirely for marketing and tells you diddly about the story. This is not literary fiction, nor should you believe the inaccurate quote about the Sopranos. Compared to the Sopranos, this is very, very tame. Paradise Salvage is a mystery. Period. It's a story about a boy who sees something......more

Loved this book. I bought it in a sale without reading the back or knowing anything about the author about ten years ago. I always kept it because I thought it was a nugget of gold. Now I'm rereading it and it hooked me again. I love the intricate details of the background stories of Nuzi and his fa......more

There have been several books written from the child's perspective and they are always enlightening. Everyday life seen through the eyes of a child can be astonishingly blunt and honest, and from an adult's perspective, humorous. It is a time when we can look at ourselves and have a laugh! Anyway, N......more

I wanted to be forever immersed and suspended in the world of the Paradiso family as drawn by John Fusco, watching over the fuck-ups they were making of their lives. In the infuriatingly macho all-American/Italian environment where everybody always feels slightly "connected" to the old way of things......more

I really enjoyed this. It's a blend of medium-paced crime thriller with a slow-paced affectionate portrait of an Italian-American community in a fictional industrial town in Connecticut. If your thing is a tale of constant frenzy and action, you won't find it here, but this is the very charm of the......more