With this collection of stories, Anthony Giardina takes his place among the finest writers of short fiction in America. The Country of Marriage is a window into the lives of men as they confront the darkness at the heart of domestic existence....
When Luca Carcera is twelve years old, his father moves out under mysterious circumstances. He surfaces across town, in a run-down rooming house, living with another man. Luca is equally surprised by his mother’s burgeoning sexuality after her hu...
Back in hardscrabble Winship, Massachusetts, in the early 1970s, Billy Mogavero was everything his best friend Timmy wanted to be--tough, sexy, graceful, a leader of young men. Twenty years later, Billy is a paint salesman still living with his paren...
Norumbega Park begins with a vision. Richie Palumbo, the most prosaic of men, gets lost one night in 1969 while driving home with his family. He finds himself in the town of Norumbega -- a hidden town, remote and gorgeous, at the far edges of Boston'...
The author of Norumbega Park returns with a bravura novel about the secrets artists keep -- from the rest of the world, and from themselves. Even though Miranda Rando, a forty-year-old writer living in Brooklyn, is making breakthroughs in her biograp...