Small Mediums at Large: The True Tale of a Family of Psychics

by Terry Iacuzzo

Paperback, 2005

Status

Available

Publication

Perigee Trade (2005), 368 pages

Description

A Six Feet Under-style story of a family of psychics by one of America's most trusted clairvoyants. Most weekends in the 1950s, the Iacuzzo house in Buffalo, New York, was filled with adults and children from around the neighborhood. If Mary Iacuzzo wasn't yelling at the women to stop hanging on to cheating husbands, then the neighborhood kids were screaming and running from the messages daughter Rosemary was delivering from dead relatives. Son Frank recounted his dreams-which often came true-as he prepared his younger sisters for school each morning. Terry, the youngest, obsessively began counting tiles and tracing patterns in an attempt to cope with the mass of information about other people's lives that flooded her tiny being. And from behind the bar of his restaurant, their father doled out predictions on everything from horse races to politics. This is the ordinary and extraordinary Sicilian family out of which sprang one of the country's most prominent psychics, Terry Iacuzzo, who has such a high-powered client list that it will remain a secret till her dying day. It's the story of the spiritual underground of 1960s and 1970s New York City. It's the story of the birth of a great seer. As Marisa Tomei has said, Terry Iacuzzo's "life has to be a movie."… (more)

Rating

½ (6 ratings; 3.5)

User reviews

LibraryThing member MerryMary
A fascinating, and at times painful, account of Terry's growing up and beginning her psychic work, in a disfunctional New York family of psychics. She paints her family and the people she meets with a fine brush. Perhaps more time was spent on her sexual awakening than was absolutely necessary -
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and at that I felt that she left us without real understanding - but the story is well told.
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LibraryThing member butterflyknit
Terri's story is funny and tragic at the same time. Besides being a psychic from a family of psychics, she deals with OCD, a sexual identity crisis, and feeling like an outsider. Worth the read.

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2004

Physical description

8.92 inches

ISBN

0399532021 / 9780399532023
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