to the director of the Feminist Press, Florence Howe, while attending a working class studies conference in Ohio. Gardaphé discussed the novel with Howe, and he gave her a copy. This resulted in the re-publishing by the Feminist Press. It was published in Italian, as Pesci di carta, by . Analysis Mary Jo Bona wrote an article about the book that was published by MELUS, the academic journal by The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. The 1987 article discusses how the novel intertwines its three issues. Paper Fish had explored illness, ethnicity, and gender. Reception Lauerman wrote that when the book was first published, "people turned [De Rosa's] head, telling her she was brilliant, a genius." A portion of the manuscript, which had been pre-published, received a nomination for the Carl Sandburg Award. The Sandburg Award is a literary prize from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library given out every year. Fred Gardaphé was the first critic to review the novel. His review was published in the American Italian Historical Newsletter. Gardaphé stated that he felt so "astonished" when the first read it and that he bought as many copies as possible so he could distribute them to his friends. Writer Louise DeSalvo gave a quote to Florence Howe for the book jacket, stating that Paper Fish was "the best Italian-American novel by a woman in this century". Howe stated that when she first sent a copy of the book to writer to DeSalvo, DeSalvo was astonished that she had not heard of the book before. See also Italians in Chicago References Bona, Mary Jo (Gonzaga University). "Broken Images, Broken Lives: Carmolina's Journey in Tina De Rosa's Paper Fish." MELUS. Oxford University Press. Volume 14, No. 3/4, Italian-American Literature (Northern Hemisphere Autumn – Winter, 1987), pp. 87–106. Available at JSTOR. Giunta, Edvige. "Afterword "A Song From the Ghetto"" In: De Rosa, Tina. Paper Fish (Contemporary classics by women series). Feminist Press at CUNY, 2002. , 9781558614390. Ph.D. dissertation. Notes External links "Paper Fish." Feminist Press. "Tina De Rosa papers." University of Illinois at Chicago 1980 American novels Novels set in Chicago Italian-American culture in Chicago Italian-American novels