Yo Capeesh!!!!: A guide to understanding Italian Americans

You know you’re a paisan if… You wear a gold chain with at least two medals one of which is an Italian horn or hand. Someone you know is a gavone. Your richest relatives are in the garbage business. You never bought a pack of cigarettes that had a tax stamp on it. Italian Americans are the most expressive and animated people on the planet. Whether you are a “friend of ours” or just a “friend of mine” Yo Capeesh! is the complete handbook for true Italian living. A humorous educational and sentimental guide to Italian Americana Yo Capeesh! is a dictionary for interpreting the pungent hyperbolic clichés and mysteries of Italian American culture.Open the pages of Yo Capeesh! and soon you will let-a your hands do the talking cook zeppole for your goombahs and stock your CD collection with Vic Damone. “Caridi has done the virtually impossible in a relatively short space hes provided a sampling of an American sub-culture and made it fun reading.”—Nancy Madison Author of Romantic Suspense and Romantic Comedy