A book is the gift that keeps on giving!
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A Family of Sicilians: Stories and Poems

". . . A Family of Sicilians: Stories and Poems is more than a book of true stories, short stories and poetry. I wrote it as a statement of my intense love of all things Sicilian, and of my need to present a truer image of Sicilians and Sicilian-Americans than the stereotypical image of the gangster, which the media has been promoting for over two centuries here in America. I wrote the book to encourage ethnic pride
within Sicilian-Americans, and I wrote it to offer non-Sicilian-Americans a chance to see a lovable side of Sicilian-Americans rarely ever seen in books."

Salvatore Amico M. Buttaci
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I Laughed, I Cried I Could not stop reading "A Family of Sicilians".Buttaci's stories and poems brought back fond memories of my childhood growing up in a Sicilian household with nonna Conchetta with nonno Giuseppi.I have heard the story about the castle in Mussomeli so many times and all of a sudden it appears like never before as on;y Buttaci can tell it.I highly recommend " A Family of Sicilans" to everyone,Italians or not. It is Great Reading.

Roberto Montagnino Scussel.
 

Salvatore Amico M. Buttaci is the former editor of New Worlds Unlimited, and of Poetidings, the newsletter of the New Jersey Poetry Society, Inc.

His writings have appeared widely here and abroad. He is the author of six books, the most recent "Promising the Moon" and "A Family of Sicilians: Stories and Poems". Pudding House Publications published, and then included his chapbook, Greatest Hits: 1970-2000 in their American Poets series.

Buttaci is an English teacher at a local middle school and an adjunct professor at Bergen Community College. He lives in Lodi, N.J., with his loving wife Sharon.
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Buttaci Is also included In Rutgers University Press  "Italian American Writers on New Jersey: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose", edited by Jennifer Gillan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and Edvige Giunta.