At last employing his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own familys emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II, Talese shares the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new. nAn Italian ROOTS. --The Washington Post Book World nAt long last, Gay Talese, one of Americas greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own familys emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the story of all immigrant families and the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new.n