Leaving Pico
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adolescence shaped by tradition
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ancestral discovery
Atlantic Ocean history
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Cape Cod family narratives
Cape Cod fishing families
Cape Cod literary fiction
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Catholicism
clamming and poaching tales
coastal life hardships
coastal town coming-of-age
community shaped by tides
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cross-cultural family tensions
cultural identity in fiction
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eccentric family dynamics
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evocative Cape Cod settings
evocative coastal storytelling
exploring family roots through myth
family loyalty and conflict
family novel
fatherless boyhood journeys
fisherman's livelihood
folkloric maritime adventures
healing through stories
hidden explorer legends
hidden histories of exploration
historical seafaring adventures
immigrant family struggles
immigrant heritage narratives
intergenerational storytelling
Language_English
layered family histories
literary depictions of Provincetown
local color novels
maritime folklore
multigenerational sagas
myth and memory
navigating identity and belonging
New England Catholic traditions
New England seafaring culture
ocean as metaphor in fiction
oral tradition in families
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Portuguese American
Portuguese American culture
Portuguese diaspora in America
Portuguese explorers before Columbus
Portuguese maritime legacy
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Provincetown
Provincetown Catholic rituals
Provincetown heritage
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rediscovery of ancestry
resilience
sea-faring ancestry
seacoast generational bonds
seacoast spirituality
search for belonging in community
seaside village life
small town secrets
softlaunch
storytelling as survival
unsung maritime heroes
Product details
- ISBN 9781951470166
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2023
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In the insular Portuguese fishing community of Provincetown, Josie Carvalho's life has been shaped by the annual influx of summer tourists and his great aunt's fervent, if idiosyncratic, Catholicism. The counterweight to these forces has always been Josie's relationship with his grandfather John Joseph, a drunk, clam-poaching old man who is nevertheless a sly and masterful storyteller.
After a stranger starts dating Josie's mother and upsets the family's equilibrium, John Joseph heals the rift with the colorful and adventurous stories of their ancestor, Francisco Carvalho, a Portuguese explorer who just may have beaten Columbus to the New World. With the guidance of these obscure but inspired tales, Josie begins to find new ways of understanding his family and the outside world. This new edition of Leaving Pico makes Frank X. Gaspar's award-winning coming-of-age novel accessible to a new generation of readers.
