Marianne Leone: 3 books

The acclaimed actress and author of Jesse: A Mother’s Story tells the story of her outspoken, frequently outrageous Italian immigrant mother. Marianne Leone’s Ma is in many senses a larger-than-life character, one who might be capable, even from the afterlife, of shattering expectations....

Jesse Cooper was an honor-roll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry. He also had severe cerebral palsy and was quadriplegic, unable to speak, and wracked by seizures. He died suddenly at age seventeen. In fiercely honest, surprisingly funny, and sometimes heartbreaking prose, Jesse’s...

La storia vera di un ragazzo speciale, raccontata dalla madre, attrice americana che ha recitato nella serie tv “I Soprano”. Jesse Cooper è un ragazzo allegro e appassionato, uno studente modello, innamorato del windsurf e della poesia. Vive intensamente i suoi diciassette anni, sebbene sia affetto...