new york city

card game

based on novel or book

italian american

superstition

arranged marriage

mother-in-law

butcher's shop

devoutness

belief in god

seppuku

catholic

little italy

roman catholic church

death of daughter

convent (nunnery)

death in childbirth

woman director

life of saint

fatima

religious delusions

ritual suicide

1950s

1960s

sudden death

sainthood

obsessive thoughts

cruel mother-in-law

death while asleep

grandmother granddaughter relationship

miracles

interfering mother-in-law

deprivation

piety

faith and religion

making a bet

mother-in-law daughter-in-law relationship

catholic schoolgirl

madam butterfly

catholic theology

religious calling

religious visions

unexplained death

pinochle

religious obsession