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If You Eat, You Never Die: Chicago Tales

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Tony Romano's second book is a literary treasure. I've gone back and read "Fixing a Hole" six times. What a great story! "Confidences" is another story that shows Romano at his best. The scenes between Fabio and Serafina, Fabio's first love, are similar to Victoria's scenes with the priest in Romano's novel When the World Was Young. The reader can feel the sexual tension between Serafina and Fabio, and although both move on to other spouses, the reader reflects on the bittersweet fact that all of us have a Serafina or Fabio in our deep and distant pasts. The other amazing thing about this book is the way the stories are arranged. The arrangement is similar to Faulkner's The Unvanquished. The book is not quite a novel, but the stories are all connected to one another. If You Eat, You Never Die deserves high praise. You won't be disappointed reading this book.

I enjoyed this book. I grew up in Chicago and I am Italian. I found it interesting and very easy to read. I would recommend this book to any Italian-Chicagoan.