Touch - Costra, Casey
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In Staten Island's Little Italy neighborhood, Rosa DeAngelo marries at 18, leaving behind her secret admirer, Tony Prezzi. He in turn marries his own pursuer, a NYC cop. Two tragedies later, they each bury themselves in their jobs, drug-store clerk and auto mechanic, and earn promotions. The new European touch therapy at Le Salon de l'Amour brings feeling back to shut-down abuse survivors, so Rosa trains to become a therapist. After a near-fatal incident, Rosa rises from her hospital bed to give a high-school graduation speech that goes viral on YouTube and creates a grassroots movement of…mehr

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In Staten Island's Little Italy neighborhood, Rosa DeAngelo marries at 18, leaving behind her secret admirer, Tony Prezzi. He in turn marries his own pursuer, a NYC cop. Two tragedies later, they each bury themselves in their jobs, drug-store clerk and auto mechanic, and earn promotions. The new European touch therapy at Le Salon de l'Amour brings feeling back to shut-down abuse survivors, so Rosa trains to become a therapist. After a near-fatal incident, Rosa rises from her hospital bed to give a high-school graduation speech that goes viral on YouTube and creates a grassroots movement of women like herself. Tony proposes, but Rosa's not yet ready to try again. Rosa's old-country Mama sets up an arranged marriage between the two. That move backfires and Tony finally finds another woman to love, a non-Italian. Tony's happy ending is not happy for anybody else in his family, so....
Autorenporträt
Casey Costra comes from the New York City area, married an Italian-American not long after graduating high school, and spent Sunday afternoons with all the cousins at Nona's house. The couple both earned undergraduate and graduate degrees while raising their three children. Casey eventually became a professor. The family has returned to Italy and Sicily, has lived in Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, and currently live in Delaware. Casey has written nonfiction before, but this is the first novel. Rosa and Tony will return at least two more times in the Rosa DeAngelo series. Watch for the exciting second in the series, Traffic.