The Swallows of Lunetto

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Tony D’Angelo’s brother Nate is dead. His family is devastated, his life is thrown into upheaval, and he doesn’t want to deal with any of it. Not with his brother’s death, not with his guilt-ridden father, and not with the consequences of his erratic behavior involving his ex-girlfriend. But when he meets Mikey, a hallucination of his nine-year-old self dressed as a Ninja Turtle, Tony is forced to face all the things he’d rather not. Luis Neer is a high school student and the author of This is a Room Where You Wait for New Language (Ghost City Press, October 2015). They live in West Virginia. From Joseph Fasano, the acclaimed author of The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, comes The Swallows of Lunetto, the powerful story of a young couple's escape from Italian fascism at the end of the Second World War. Besides that, the emphasis on dreams is too much, and the dialogue is not realistic, with many a conversation that (either flew over my head or) was just pointless (not a literal quote:) ‘how do you know?’ ‘Know what? I don’t’ ‘you don’t’ ‘I don’t think you’re supposed to know. You’re supposed to be in it.’ ‘That’s where we are?’ ‘That’s where we are.’ The Swallows of Lunetto is not a story of war, exactly. It is a story, in part, of war’s aftermath, of what happens when a young man looks up from his youth and realizes, with horror, what he has done. And it is a story of the love and forgiveness that just might be possible not only in spite of but because of the ways in which we have erred.

Author Joseph Fasano recounts sitting next to someone reading his book on a flight". 23 February 2023.Alexandra Bianchi lives and works in Lunetto, a provincial village in Italy’s Calabria region, which finds itself ravaged by war in the summer of 1945. Leonardo Gemetti, a young man from Lunetto, has been missing for nearly eight years, and all his village knows of him is that he has carried out an atrocity against the Italian partisans in Mussolini’s fallen Republic of Salò. When Alexandra meets a masked figure in the streets of Lunetto, she cannot imagine what she will learn about history and her place in it.

A book about friendship, covetousness, love, depravity, self-destruction, art, dreams, freaky magic, and Los Angeles. Mr Fasano’s neighbour introduced herself as Jan, and told him that a friend had suggested the book as a good love story. DUNCAN BIRMINGHAM is a writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. He’s been a writer and producer on numerous tv shows including Maron (starring Marc Maron) and Blunt Talk. Short films he’s written and directed have premiered at film festivals including Sundance and AFI. His stories have appeared in literary magazines including Mystery Tribune, Maudlin House, nerve, Juked, 7x7, Brooklyn Vol 1 and Joyland. In 2011, Fasano's first book, Fugue for Other Hands, won the Cider Press Review Book Award. [8] It was nominated for the Kate Tufts Poetry Award and the Poets' Prize, "awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award." His second collection of poems, Inheritance, was released in May 2014. In 2015, Fasano published Vincent, a book-length poem based very loosely on the 2008 killing of Tim McLean by Vince Li on a Greyhound Bus near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, on the Trans Canada Highway. [9] His fourth collection of poems, The Crossing, was released in 2018. A young woman in the village recalled the boy and connects with the man. She bears her own invisible scars. Her charcoal drawings reflect what she sees, the sea and her town and her sisters, and she studies them hoping to understand what she sees. To understand her life.

Leonardo is full of guilt and confusion when the war ends, and the novel asks questions about how people get caught up in the dangerous ideas of political extremes.

Joseph Fasano is the author of four books of poetry: The Crossing (Cider Press, 2018), Fugue for Other Hands (Cider Press, 2013), which won the 2011 Cider Press Review Book Award; Inheritance (Cider Press, 2014), which has been nominated for the James Laughlin Award; and Vincent (Cider Press, 2015). Fasano’s debut novel The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing was released in 2020 by Platypus Press to high critical acclaim. He had been broken so many times, first by war and then by the wars within him, but he had prevailed. That’s all there is, to prevail. from The Swallows of Lunetto by Joseph Fasano This research, for me, was and is deeply enjoyable. I wanted to know more, then more, then more. How did Mussolini’s fascists attempt to “educate” the youth in the years prior to the Second World War? With what kind of wood might a young Calabrese artist make her own charcoal with which to draw her images? What would she see in the waves outside her window? At exactly what depth do fishing crews net their catch in a particular season, off a particular port, in the Tyrrhenian Sea?Miljure, Ben. "New book offers imagined perspective of Greyhound bus killer". CTVNews Winnipeg . Retrieved 23 March 2015. Alexandra is an artist and Leonardo is a former soldier who fought with the Italian fascists in the Second World War,” the writer told STV News. Cawley's debut chapbook "depression is a thunderstorm and i am a scared dog" is a journey of resiliency, perseverance and subjectivity to one's fallacies. Through lyricism and descriptiveness, Cawley battles her PTSD through her interactions with others, and questions them as well her observation of the situation.