Lisa is a television producer, cinematographer and writer. Her
work has appeared on the CBC, The History Channel and The Life
Network. Her writing has appeared in Vice Magazine and the Washington
Post among other publications, and she is a frequent contributor
to Nerve.com. Lisa Gabriele lives in Toronto.
Tempting
Faith DiNapoli is Gabriele's charming debut novel.
Faith is the well-meaning eldest daughter of a dysfunctional Italian
family living in 1970s Canada. With an absent father, three rambunctious
siblings, and a mother who's trying to make the best of the life
she's got instead of focusing on the life she wanted, young Faith
takes it upon herself to assume religious responsibility and tries
to be "good enough" to make up for the flaws of her
whole family. She struggles between the person she is and the
perfect one she wants to be, and it ultimately takes a test of
faith for her to find self-acceptance and her place in the world.
"This book is innocently impious,
purely vulgar, harmlessly violent, blamelessly profane, profanely
spiritual, unambiguously funny and unabashedly unique. It explodes
with the kind of raw, bawdy, chaotic, intemperate life force rarely
found in Canadian literature."
Hamilton Spectator
Doubleday Canada
Simon & Schuster US,
Virago UK
Lisa is currently working on her second novel, Getting
Back @ Him. It has been sold to Doubleday Canada
and Simon & Schuster US
Tempting
Faith DiNapoli is Gabriele's charming debut novel.
Faith is the well-meaning eldest daughter of a dysfunctional Italian
family living in 1970s Canada. With an absent father, three rambunctious
siblings, and a mother who's trying to make the best of the life
she's got instead of focusing on the life she wanted, young Faith
takes it upon herself to assume religious responsibility and tries
to be "good enough" to make up for the flaws of her
whole family. She struggles between the person she is and the
perfect one she wants to be, and it ultimately takes a test of
faith for her to find self-acceptance and her place in the world.
