A deeply observed, excruciatingly blunt novel.-The New YorkerThe raging, tormented voice of the author is something rare.-The New York TimesFollowing her mothers untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her family. A series of mysterious telephone calls leads her to compelling and disturbing revelations about her mothers final days.This stylish fiction from the author of The Days of Abandonment is set in a beguiling but often hostile Naples, whose chaotic, suffocating streets become one of the books central motifs. A story about mothers and daughters and the complicated knot of lies and emotions that binds them.,
