Claiming a tradition: Italian American women writers

Family novels of development: Mari Tomasi's Like lesser gods and Marion Benasutti's No steady job for Papa

"Growing down": arrested development in the family narratives of Octavia Waldo's A cup of the sun and Josephine Gattuso Hendin's The right thing to do

Remembering their names: the developmental journeys in Diana Cavallo's A bridge of leaves and Dorothy Bryant's Miss Giardino

A process of reconstruction: recovering the grandmother in Helen Barolini's Umbertina and Tina de Rosa's Paper fish

Recent developments in Italian American women's literary traditions.