Easter Lunch

by Gabriella Ghermandi, Brenda Porster (Translator )

Set in an immigrant community in Bologna, Gabriella Ghermandi's "Easter Lunch" finds an Ethiopian teen, Alem, inviting her new Italian boyfriend to the title feast. She does so with some trepidation: her grandmother has screened her previous suitors by serving fiercely spiced cuisine—"A man who cannot resist something hot on his tongue will not be able to resist the spicy character of an Ethiopian woman," she serenely tells the protesting girl—and none have survived the first course. But Alem's new beau will surprise them. "Easter Lunch" is an entertaining, and ultimately moving, story of teen love in the context of immigration and assimilation.

19 pages, ebook

Published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[heb · Rating 3 out of 5]

I feel like I lost a lot through the English translation...if only I could read Italian lol