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Terri-Lynne DeFino

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Terri-Lynne DeFino was born and raised in New Jersey but escaped to the wilds of Connecticut back in the nineties when her kids were babies and everyone wore flannel. She is the second of four children born to a homemaker and a then-fledgling attorney, in a Paterson, NJ household that included two grandparents and the occasional uncle, where Sunday dinner was a given and the noise level often required earplugs. According to her mother, she started writing stories at the age of seven, and learned to cook at any elbow she could wedge herself under. These days, her famiglia is larger, and louder, which might explain why she's still in Connecticut, but if you knock on her door, she'll invite you in and feed you, because you can take the Italian ...more

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Terri-Lynne DeFino The best thing? Gads, that's a hard one. My day is full of words, stories, editing. But the best thing is knowing there are people somewhere reading w…moreThe best thing? Gads, that's a hard one. My day is full of words, stories, editing. But the best thing is knowing there are people somewhere reading what I wrote and, hopefully, being touched by it.(less)
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"If, like me, your childhood was peppered with words like baciagaloop, fanabola, stunad, capeesh, mooshad, menz’ammenz, facciabrutt, and agida; you’ll find yourself right at home in this engaging novel. If, like me, you grew up in an ethnic neighborho" Read more of this review »
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"Funny, sad and everything in between about a crazy Italian family and all the love they share. "
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"Hey, don’t be a chooch! This book is seriously the real deal for Italian family fun and foibles. Loved it like Sunday Gravy and Gabagool!"
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"We had the absolute pleasure of hosting Terri Lynne at an event for our bookstore (Sparta Books) in Sparta NJ. I had already read the book prior to the event but some of our customers had not.. we had such fun and a lot of giggles when Terri Lynne st" Read more of this review »
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" I thought vongole was vaffangul too! Too funny. "
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“A book is like a woman. She should leave your bed with her hair tangled and her clothes on backward. A book without creases is a book that has never known passion.”
Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“There are many yesterdays. With any luck, many tomorrows. But there's only one today. Don't fuck it up.”
Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

“Olivia's heart pittered. A blank page. A pen in hand. Was there anything as exciting? The endless possibilities, the potential for beauty, even genius, waiting for that breath of life.”
Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers

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“Never and forever are not opposites. They are two parts to a whole. Like love and pain. Joy and sorrow. Life and death. Like monster and princess. But between love and pain there is comfort. Between joy and sorrow there is contentment. Between life and death there is experience. Between monster and princess, there is courage. And between never and forever, there is everything.”
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