I Love You Like a Tomato

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ChiChi Maggiordino will do anything to get God's attention. She will hold her breath, stand on tiptoe for an hour, walk a mile backward, climb all stairs on her knees - anything. When her grandmother teaches her how to use the Evil Eye, ChiChi realizes it's what her prayers have been missing and that this old Italian magic is what is going to convince God to help her keep her family together. But life has a way of taking control of itself and Chichi watches in wonder as her family transforms right before her eyes, painfully aware of the ways she herself is changing as well