Looking for Alibrandi: A Review
for Alibrandi is about Josephine Alibrandi in her last year of high school at St Martha‘s. The book begins with Josie sitting at her desk in her religion class in deep thought about a multiple choice question in a Hot Pants Magazine. The setting in Looking for Alibrandi does not play a main part in the book but plays a main part in her love and family life. In the book there is an emphasis on an urban environment with a teenage view on the social links at her school.
Josie lives in Australia in a suburb just outside of Sydney called Glebe. Glebe is filled with beautiful tree-lined streets with gorgeous old homes and old terraces with views of outhouses and clothes-lines. Josie lives in an old terrace with her mother. Glebe is also a common suburb for Italians just like Josie and her family.
A few subtle Italian stereotypes are introduced in Looking for Alibrandi like how Josie and her friends, when eating out, are always at a local pizza shop. Also, Josie’s family have their annual tomato dayor as Josie called it “wog day” to celebrate their Italian culture in Australia.
As the book is set in real life Sydney, the readers can relate to the descriptions of the suburbs that Josie and other characters are brought upon, such as, Leichardt, the CBD and the city, Glebe and its markets and Darling Harbour.
Through the novel, Josie expresses her feelings over school, her heritage and her home. As she goes through her last year at school she is enlightened about her ethnicity and talks about what she thinks of her own world. We are taken through a journey of Sydney and its inner-west suburbs through the eyes and perspectives of Josephine Alibrandi which creates an eccentric setting for Looking for Alibrandi.
Josie lives in Australia in a suburb just outside of Sydney called Glebe. Glebe is filled with beautiful tree-lined streets with gorgeous old homes and old terraces with views of outhouses and clothes-lines. Josie lives in an old terrace with her mother. Glebe is also a common suburb for Italians just like Josie and her family.
A few subtle Italian stereotypes are introduced in Looking for Alibrandi like how Josie and her friends, when eating out, are always at a local pizza shop. Also, Josie’s family have their annual tomato dayor as Josie called it “wog day” to celebrate their Italian culture in Australia.
As the book is set in real life Sydney, the readers can relate to the descriptions of the suburbs that Josie and other characters are brought upon, such as, Leichardt, the CBD and the city, Glebe and its markets and Darling Harbour.
Through the novel, Josie expresses her feelings over school, her heritage and her home. As she goes through her last year at school she is enlightened about her ethnicity and talks about what she thinks of her own world. We are taken through a journey of Sydney and its inner-west suburbs through the eyes and perspectives of Josephine Alibrandi which creates an eccentric setting for Looking for Alibrandi.