Behind Closed Doors: Her Father’s House and Other Stories of Sicily

With an ear for dialogue that may be compared to Tillie Olsen, Grace Paley, and Ernest Hemingway, Sicilian writer Maria Messina presents the captivating and brutal realities of women living in early-twentieth-century Italy in this first collection of her work available in English. Behind Closed Doors portrays the habits and gestures, the words spoken and those le More »