Audio Book Description:
In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo`s world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parent`s Studebaker, the Paradise Theater, Yankee Stadium-and in his imagination, where he longs for stencil kit to decorate the windows like all the other kids on his street. Instead, he gets a very differentpresent: his uncle Malcolm`s family. Malcolm is in jailfor stealing- once again- from his latest new job, andAnthony`s aunt and twin cousins settleinto the Amedeo`s fifth floor walk-up. Sharing a room with girls is excruciating for Anthony, despite his affinity for the twins. But the realchange in Anthony`s life comes one evening when he causes the unthinkable to happen, changing each family member`slife forever. Evoking all the plenty and optimism of postwar America, Sacred Timespans three generations, taking us from the Bronx of the 1950s to contemporaryBrooklyn. Keenly observing the dark sideof family- and its gracefulness- Hegi has outdone herself with this captivating novel about childhood`stenderness and the landscape of loneliness.
