“The
many faces of home, all of them dear, all of them hard-won, all of them
so complicated and confusing and beloved, lie at the heart of this
tenderest of novels. If there is a better book about what it means to be
in a family, I haven’t read it.” Stacey d’Erasmo, author of The Sky Below
“I
loved this book for both its wit and its compassion. Chris Castellani
has a steady, sustained belief in the goodness of the human spirit. to
be able to convey both comedy and tragedy in a single novel is a
remarkable gift.” Anita Shreve, author of Rescue Christopher
Castellani has published two previous novels with Algonquin—A Kiss from
Maddalena, which won the Massachusetts Books Award for Fiction; and The
Saint of Lost Things. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, where he is
the artistic director of Grub Street, the Boston-based non-profit
creative writing center. In addition to his work with Grub Street,
Christopher is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson College Low-Residency
MFA program.
“The
many faces of home, all of them dear, all of them hard-won, all of them
so complicated and confusing and beloved, lie at the heart of this
tenderest of novels. If there is a better book about what it means to be
in a family, I haven’t read it.”
