Nonno's Monkey:
An Italian American Memoir

Introduction

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Part I.
The Beginning is the End
Italy

Prologue Uno
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    1b - Dedication [Read For Free]
    1c - Prologue [Read For Free]

Prologue Due ~ Late Winter 1889 to Summer 1914
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Prologue Tre ~ July 6, 1914, Hamerica!
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Part II.
Nonno’s Monkey
Branford, Connecticut July, 1942 ~ May, 1943


THE BEGINNING IS THE END
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Chapter I. Ach du Leiber Augustine, July, 1942
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Chapter I (concluded) & Chapter II ~ Dawn Hello & Caffé Robusto
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Chapter III. Monkeyshines Before Sunday Supper
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Chapter IV. Sunday Supper and the Anchovy Atrocity
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Chapter V. Vino Veritas, August 1942
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Chapter VI. Il Zingari and Nonna’s Chickens
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Chapter VII. Yaakie’s Mystery
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Chapter VIII. Rusty and Chico, The Dynamic Duo
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Chapter IX. Le Patate Ragazze and Il Presto
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Chapter X Le Patate Ragazze and the Driving Lesson
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Chapter XI. Ebony, Ivory and La Tick-a-Tock-a
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Chapter XII. Lurking Leads to the Big Milk Heist & the Wild West Show
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Chapter XIII. Billy, The Wicked
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Chapter XIV. Church, School Business and Apologies
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Chapter XV. Nonna’s Big Tea Party Flop
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Chapter XVI. The Crying Game
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Chapter XVII. Apple Trees and Clotheslines
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Chapter XVIII. The Wrong Spring Rites and the Jell-O Insurrection
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Chapter XIX. The Forty-Yard Dash
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Chapter XX. Call Out of the Not So Blue
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Chapter XXI. The Big Adventure
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The End is the Beginning
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