“Reading is very important, Ida,” he says. “The secret to a long life is to escape it as often as you can.”

– The Saint of Lost Things by Christopher Castellani

Nothing about their house would announce, “We’re immigrants!” except the aroma of garlic and basil floating from the kitchen window. In the city, on Eighth Street, they were Italians; in the suburbs, on a place like Myrtle Avenue, they would be Americans, no different from anyone else.

– The Saint of Lost Things by Christopher Castellani