My Father, Fortune-tellers & Me: A Memoir is a witty coming-of-age story of fate versus free will. As the daughter of Southern Italian immigrants joined in an acrimonious arranged marriage, Eufemia Fantetti weathered the devastating consequences of her mother's treatment-resistant schizophrenia for years before moving to the other side of the country to escape the constant turmoil. When her dad develops depression, a host of long-buried ancestral beliefs are excavated and revealed--mal'occhio, maledictions and stregheria--with urgent warning. Studying the sky for planetary alignment, consulting her trusty tarot deck for guidance and visiting her dad's psychic healer for a prescription for prescience, Fantetti's story is a darkly hilarious, tender chronicle of family, destiny and superstition written with sharp humour and unflinching honesty.