Description du livre
All My Fallen Angelas is a collection of stories inspired by
the lives of Italian-Canadian women living in Toronto from the 1960s to
the present. The stories document their strength and resilience, their
power and vulnerability as the women move in community that allowed
their presence in shops, factories, and churches, but offered them
little else for entertainment and self-exploration outside of their
families. The stories cover a wide range of women’s experiences from
loneliness; disappointment; mothering; marriages, arranged and not
arranged, that were loving, simply stable, or violent. As a whole, the
book provides the reader with a sense of Toronto’s Italian immigrant
community in its urban landscape, housing, social life, work and
education options. The stories are the work of a raconteur who has been
listening carefully to a wide range of women who shared their feelings
in the kitchens and basements of their lives when the men were not
around, when they were asleep or otherwise occupied. Each story ends on
an ambiguous or poignant note that invokes the reader’s imagination.
These stories are not simply accounts of women’s lives. They are
literature: often humourous, sometimes tragic, and eternally human.