Behind Closed Doors: Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily Science & Math There's no shortage of advice

There's no shortage of advice out there on how to perform better

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Behind Closed Doors: Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily Science & Math There's no shortage of adviceTen stories of impoverished Sicilian women in the early 20th centuryhoned, polished, devastatingly direct . . . verismo at its unsentimental best (Kirkus Reviews). The Sicilian writer Maria Messinas captivating and brutal stories of the women of her home island are presented in a lyrical and immediate English translation by Elise Magistro (Publishers Weekly). Messina, who died in 1944, was the foremost female practitioner of verismothe Italian