In Christopher Castellani's "All This Talk of Love," Italian immigrant parents raise American offspring, mirroring the author's own life. Although the novel, Castellani's third, isn't drawn entirely from personal experience, he offered that "certain dynamics in the book are resonant to my family," including the complex idea of home.

"There are these parents who are always longing to go home," he said of the fictional Grasso family, "and for them home is a completely different place from where their children grew up and what they understand home to be.''

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