Just Call Me Moose!: Growing Up Italian in America by Karl R. Bossi

By Karl R. Bossi

From the prattle at the cobblestone streets of Dorchester, a operating category local of Boston, to the harrowing jungles of Vietnam, an period comes alive within the newly released memoir “Just name Me Moose! growing to be Up Italian in America”. Seventeen classic images increase the narrative. This gritty memoir chronicles the colourful lifetime of Karl Bossi growing to be up Italian in a predominantly Irish and blue-collar local of Boston. Upon commencement from collage Bossi left domestic for a profession within the Air strength and lived in Japan, Vietnam, Spain and Turkey round bombs, bullets and booby traps. What follows is Karl’s 50-year trip to acknowledge that it was once very unlikely to include his personal existence so long as he shunned his father’s dying. Bossi's memoir, occasionally sour, occasionally candy, is a shiny and sometimes funny portrait of what it was once wish to develop up with poles-apart Italian-speaking mom and dad. purely later does he keep in mind that “Mum” by no means came upon the channel that Pop transmitted on, yet now not until eventually he realizes that “Mum” wasn't far better whilst it got here to tuning into her final son.

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“...a strong, poignant journey....takes the reader from the streets of Boston within the ’fifties to the jungles of Vietnam.” --Ron Della Chiesa , WGBH, Boston, February 1, 2005

“[I] used to be struck via just like your mom bringing you her hair,...such an evocative and provocative image.” --Diane Freund, affiliate Professor of English and Director of artistic Writing and Composition on the college of Arizona, March four, 2005

“...will do for Italian-Americans what Angela’s Ashes did for Irish-Americans.” --G.L. Tassone, Novelist, brief tale author, Pushcart Prize nominee, April 15, 2005

About the Author
Karl R. Bossi, a local of Boston, graduated from Northeastern college and left domestic for the U.S. Air strength. Bossi served within the a long way East and Europe and led a bomb disposal group in Vietnam. He retired as a lieutenant colonel and have become an aerospace logistic engineer. Bossi holds graduate levels in counseling and suggestions and procurement administration, and is a printed author and released photographer.

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