The Family: A Read with Jenna Pick (A Novel)
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A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself.
Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate.
Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever observing the world around her. Best friends since birth, they live in the shadow of their fathers’ unspoken community: the Family. Sunday dinners gather them each week to feast, discuss business, and renew the intoxicating bond borne of blood and love.
But the disappearance of Antonia’s father drives a whisper-thin wedge between the girls as they grow into women, wives, mothers, and leaders. Their hearts expand in tandem with Red Hook and Brooklyn around them, as they push against the boundaries of society’s expectations and fight to preserve their complex but life-sustaining friendship. One fateful night their loyalty to each other and the Family will be tested. Only one of them can pull the trigger before it’s too late.
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Naomi Krupitsky. (2021). The Family: A Read with Jenna Pick (A Novel). Penguin Publishing Group.
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A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself.
Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate.
Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever observing the world around her. Best friends since birth, they live in the shadow of their fathers’ unspoken community: the Family. Sunday dinners gather them each week to feast, discuss business, and renew the intoxicating bond borne of blood and love.
But the disappearance of Antonia’s father drives a whisper-thin wedge between the girls as they grow into women, wives, mothers, and leaders. Their hearts expand in tandem with Red Hook and Brooklyn around them, as they push against the boundaries of society’s expectations and fight to preserve their complex but life-sustaining friendship. One fateful night their loyalty to each other and the Family will be tested. Only one of them can pull the trigger before it’s too late. - reviews
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July 19, 2021
In this nicely written but slow-moving debut, two fierce heroines, daughters of mobsters, come of age in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, in the 1930s and ’40s. First-generation Sicilian American Sofia Colicchio grows up learning that “Family is everything.” It’s a bitter pill. When her best friend Antonia Russo’s father, Carlo, is caught skimming the books and “disappeared,” Antonia becomes even more dependent on the “Family” that killed her father, as it provides for her and her mother. As the power of Sofia’s father, Joey, grows, so does Sofia’s attraction to seizing power of her own, though there’s no place for women in the organization, while Antonia tries to distance herself from the Family. Krupitsky follows Sofia and Antonia from early childhood through marriage and motherhood as each fight to carve out their independence and sense of self, and Antonia faces months of postpartum depression. Their experiences are shaped by WWII and a country where immigrants like Joey absorb such messages as “stay with your own kind; take the jobs we do not want,” forcing them to carve out their own version of an “American dream” that must be “gleaned, bought or stolen.” While a violent showdown at the end involving Sofia and Antonia feels jarring, Krupitsky beautifully captures their day-to-day lives under never-ending tension. The women’s rich stories make this worthwhile. Agent: Dana Murphy, Book Group.
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Two young Italian American women grow up under the shadow of organized crime in the 20th century. It's hard to find fresh ways to write about the American mob in the wake of the cultural juggernaut that was The Sopranos. Krupitsky (who credits the HBO series in her acknowledgments) opts for looking back. She approaches the story through the eyes of two young women who grow up inside--and yet, because of their gender, outside--the family. Set in Brooklyn during the late 1920s through the late 1940s, the novel follows Sofia Colicchio and Antonia Russo as they grow up in an Italian American bubble. Sofia is impulsive, inquisitive, popular; Antonia, introspective and studious. Other children aren't allowed to play with them, but this is not a problem, because they have each other. Their families are close, their fathers in the business of "helping people," they believe. But then Antonia's father disappears, and the dynamic shifts. Tenuously connected through weekly Sunday dinners, Sofia and Antonia drift apart, grow up, and come together again as their adult options narrow. What can they do besides get married and have children? Can they escape the family--and do they even want to escape? Krupitsky's novel lacks the depth of Elena Ferrante's work, but the story is fast-paced and readable, and the ebb and flow between Sofia and Antonia as secrets threaten their friendship propel the reader forward. Krupitsky can construct a memorable image: Someone the girls dislike has teeth that "crowd into his mouth like commuters on a train platform." But the finale feels unlikely, playing out in a way that can't possibly be as seamless as Krupitsky makes it out to be. In the end, the novel turns out to be a little too facile for its own good. A readable but somewhat shallow story about friendship and loyalty.COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Starred review from December 3, 2021
DEBUT Sophia Colicchio and Antonia Russo have been best friends since birth, bound together by the Family, otherwise known as the Mafia. Their fathers, Joey Colicchio and Carlo Russo, work for Tommy Fianzo, who controls much of New York City in 1928. When Carlo attempts to escape the Family, he is "disappeared," an event that will shape all of their lives. Over the course of two decades and several significant historical events--Prohibition, the Great Depression, and World War II--Sophia and Antonia grow up in the violent, insular world of Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood with each of them challenging the expectations for their lives in their own way. Their friendship ebbs as they grow older, but motherhood brings them back together as they both marry Family men. Those men will also bring them trouble, but Sophia and Antonia have found their own innate strength and will do whatever they have to in order to protect their husbands and children. VERDICT Insightfully imagining the lives of two Italian American girls born into the Mafia as they come of age and become mothers, Krupitsky has written a debut that readers will want to inhale with occasional pauses to savor her evocative descriptions.--Melissa DeWild, Comstock Park, MI
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Starred review from September 1, 2021
Mario Puzo meets Elena Ferrante in Krupitsky's dynamite debut novel, a decades-spanning saga beginning in 1920s Brooklyn. "There is no easy way to untangle what is Family and what is family," her characters realize to their chagrin and peril. Daughters of influential Mafiosos, fiery Sofia Colicchio and her introverted best friend, Antonia Russo, know their families aren't typical. Schoolmates avoid them, their mothers constantly worry, and on Sundays they attend a large Italian feast at their fathers' boss' home. When Antonia's papa tries to escape his profession, he gets "disappeared," a terrible warning against future betrayals. Sofia and Antonia are resilient, multifaceted young women whose bond occasionally strains as they test the boundaries of independence, and their choice of husbands ensnares them further in Family business. Depicting twentieth-century Mafia families primarily from the female viewpoint is a fabulous concept that Krupitsky carries out with aplomb. Perspective shifts are smooth, and the backdrops of Prohibition and WWII are superbly realized. Italian American traditions (including delicious casseroles) are highlighted, and the unique immigration stories show why and how Italian and Jewish newcomers get pulled into organized crime. Fans of Adriana Trigiani and Lynda Cohen Loigman will inhale this tense, engrossing novel about family ties, women's friendships, and the treacherous complications of loyalty.COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate.
Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever observing the world around her. Best friends since birth, they live in the shadow of their fathers’ unspoken community: the Family. Sunday dinners gather them each week to feast, discuss business, and renew the intoxicating bond borne of blood and love.
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