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Josephine Nobisso Libros

El Peso De Una Misa / The Weight Of The Mass

When a poor devout widow begs for a scrap of bread from a rich faithless baker, she promises to participate in the king’s wedding mass as payment for the baker’s generosity. The baker writes One Mass on a scrap of paper and places it on his scale to determine how much bread it is worth.

En Inglés, Por Supuesto

Set in the Bronx during the 1950s, when postwar immigrant children were placed in their first American classrooms, this delightful story tells of the riotous linguistic misunderstandings of Josephine’s first day of school. The daughter of savvy Italian engineers, Josephine has lived in the city long enough to have learned a few words in English,