A Lie Will Suffice: A DiGiovanni Family History

by Jay Wilkinson

Book Overview

In 1893 Western Sicily, Gaetano DiGiovanni, twenty-five years old, foresees a day when he abandons his turbulent, hard-scrabble life in the Palermo Province hinterlands for the promise of America. His fourteen-and-a-half-year-old wife, Angelina Bucaro DiGiovanni, is at his side. Gaetano becomes an old-style Mafiosi "man of respect," called Don Tano Baiocco in Sicily and New Orleans. For the next half century, "Tano Baiocco" guides his burgeoning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1639856625
• ISBN13: 9781639856626
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Fulton Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"