Natural Venus immediately pulls readers into the sordid and hilarious childhood of author Steve Cirrone as he struggles with self-identity against the backdrop of Mother and her very Italian family in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

With dynamic language and realistic from-the-hip dialogue, Cirrone shows us that all of our stories are rooted in our origins. Told in a series of genuine and candid interlocking vignettes, Natural Venus shows us that nothing in life is coincidence, rather, there is a machine of existence that at times pushes us and other times pulls us through the muck of life, and, for good or for bad, Mother often turns the crank.