Matriarchs, Meze and the Evil Eye by Costa Ayiotis

In this humorous coming-of-age memoir, young Costa finds himself in the middle of a tempestuous matriarchal triangle. His sulky young mother, Victoria, is forced to share her home with her conservative Greek mother-in-law and her bossy, divorced sister-in-law. Young Costa, the bemused (and often confused) spectator and narrator, watches as his hard-working cotton-trader father tries to cope with the three women's never-ending complaints and demands.