Peter D. Cimini

Peter D. Cimini is an educator, inventor, and writer who holds two United States patents. He obtained his undergraduate and graduate degrees from NYU, spent two years in the military, and taught in the New York City Public Schools for three years. He and his family moved to Connecticut in 1970 where he worked as a curriculum specialist for the Newington Public Schools for 22 years before retiring to learn the art of writing. The Secret Sin of Opi is Peter Cimini's first novel. Stories about the Ciarletta family originate from the author's recollections of actual events that he experienced growing up in an Italian family in the Bronx, New York, in the mid-twentieth century. The beginning chapters provides an intimate glimpse into the life style of a first generation Italian Immigrant family: Bella Figura, with all the cultural customs and behaviors important to Italian families of that period are described in a caring but humorous manner. Visit www.thesecretsinofopi.com