11.15.2025

Sister Dressed Me Funny -- What They Are Saying

 Here are a few reasons why we believe Sister Dressed MeFunny would be an excellent fit for our club this festive season:

The themes of memory, family, identity and humour align beautifully with the end-of-year mindset many of our members bring  when we think back on our lives, our childhoods, how things shaped us, and what it means to come together.

Your book’s blend of nostalgia, quirky childhood stories and a warm, honest voice offers both charm and substance  perfect for a book-club discussion that balances laughter with reflection.

Sister Dressed Me Funny adventures close to the edge through humility and humor with these chronicles of catholic school nuns, Cub Scout contests, Grandma's house in the country, junior high school bus antics and more.

Tales about, of all things, a naked statue and the catholic school tie, Italian American family roots and that dress his sister made him wear.

Buccino's essays cut close to the edge of humor, humiliation and heartbreak chronicling education by the strictest nuns in the world at a school where the statues of saints were said to dance the Twist if you prayed real hard.

A wistful reminiscence of life on the farm with chicken coops and too many cats in what is now at the very least suburbia; being the butt of the Cub Scout skit gone wrong in front of the entire pack, and, of course, that dress his sister made him wear.

Essays recount childhood the 1950s and 1960s and later in Belleville and Nutley, N.J.

Published by Cherry Blossom Press. 

Nonfiction/Memoir

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