1960: Fifth grade, in a Catholic school in a blue-collar area of Western PA. There are bewildering rules everywhere for Italian-American ten-year-old Enzo -- at school, at church, at home -- almost all of which involve not talking, his Achilles' heel. It is the dawn of a new era, with the old one stubbornly clinging on. There are Latin Masses, confessionals, and penance. There is The Ed Sullivan Show and Gunsmoke. At home is a loutish big brother and a mean little grandfather. Thanks be to God, there is spaghetti. And there are nuns, of the (literally) old-school variety, armed with erasers, clickers, and rulers to keep their charges in line.

Many years later, Enzo reunites with a school friend whose life has been forever altered by a childhood tragedy. This irreverent and humorous fictional work is a look back at this singular time and place, without the rose-colored lenses.

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