![]() ![]() Joseph Fasano is an American poet, novelist, and songwriter. 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.Ī sweeping love story and historical drama, The Swallows of Lunetto is a timely meditation on the left-right political divide, the reckonings of inherited trauma, and the potential of forgiveness to heal deeply divisive wounds. 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. Please review our COVID-19 Safety guidelines and register for the event using the link below.įrom 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.Īlexandra 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. ![]() In order to facilitate this in-person author event, we will be partially closing the second floor starting at 6:45pm. Join us on Tuesday, March 21st at 7pm for a reading and discussion with Joseph Fasano in celebration of the recent release of The Swallows of Lunetto. ![]()
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