Fun With Nuns...and Other Horror Stories

<p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Fun with Nuns by A.J. Caliendo grabs you by the throat with ferocious hilarious nostalgia but there's a twist - at its heart is a deeply moving story about friendship and survival.</span></p><p> Lila Shaara author of <em>The Fortune Teller's Daughter</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong>1960: Fifth grade in a Catholic school in a blue-collar area of Western PA. There are bewildering rules everywhere for Italian-American ten-year-old Enzo-at school at church at home-almost all of which involve not talking his Achilles' heel. </strong></p><p><br></p><p>It is the dawn of a new era with the old one stubbornly clinging on. There are Latin Masses confessionals and penance. There is <em>The Ed Sullivan Show</em> and <em>Gunsmoke</em>. At home is a loutish big brother and a mean little grandfather. Thanks be to God there is spaghetti. And there are nuns of the (literally) old-school variety armed with erasers clickers and rulers to keep their charges in line.</p><p><br></p><p>Many years later Enzo reunites with a school friend whose life has been forever altered by a childhood tragedy. This irreverent and humorous fictional work is a look back at this singular time and place without the rose-colored lenses.</p><p><br></p><p>At novelette length (110 pages) this book is a perfect gift or stocking stuffer for the Baby Boom generation who may recognize a bit of their own pasts in its pages.</p><p><br></p>