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Rita Ciresi

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About this author

Rita Ciresi was born in New Haven, Connecticut, a city which serves as the backdrop for most of her fiction. Ciresi is the author of three award-winning novels and two short-story collections that address the Italian-American experience.

Her latest novel, Bring Back My Body to Me, was a semi-finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and a runner-up for the Faulkner/Wisdom Novella Award. Publishers Weekly called it "sensitive, funny, and charming. . . a refreshing entry to the very clogged sub-genre of cancer lit."

Her first collection of short stories, Mother Rocket, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and was a finalist for the 1993 Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

Her first novel, Blue Italian,...more


Average rating: 3.16 · 949 ratings · 139 reviews · 8 distinct works
Pink Slip
3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 425 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions
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Sometimes I Dream in Italian
3.02 of 5 stars 3.02 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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Blue Italian
3.24 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
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Remind Me Again Why I Marri...
3.07 of 5 stars 3.07 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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Mother Rocket
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions
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Bring Back My Body to Me
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Swan Song
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010
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Italienische Küsse: Roman
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I Suck at Girls by Justin Halpern
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I think this book will really appeal to my students who want to write Y-A fiction and I'm going to include it on my syllabus next time around, as it is sure to spark interesting debate. It's a page-turner that also forces young readers to think throu...more
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