All This Talk of Love It s been fifty years since Antonio Grasso married Maddalena and brought her to America That was the last time she would ever see her parents her sisters and brothers everything she knew and loved in

It s been fifty years since Antonio Grasso married Maddalena and brought her to America That was the last time she would ever see her parents, her sisters and brothers everything she knew and loved in the village of Santa Cecilia, Italy She locked those memories away, as if Santa Cecilia stopped existing the very day she left Now, with children and grandchildren of herIt s been fifty years since Antonio Grasso married Maddalena and brought her to America That was the last time she would ever see her parents, her sisters and brothers everything she knew and loved in the village of Santa Cecilia, Italy She locked those memories away, as if Santa Cecilia stopped existing the very day she left Now, with children and grandchildren of her own, a successful family run restaurant, and enough daily drama at home, Maddalena sees no need to open the door to the past and let the emotional baggage and unmended rifts of another life spill out But Prima, Antonio and Maddalena s American born daughter, was raised on the lore of the Old Country And as she sees her parents aging, she hatches the idea to take the entire family back to Italy hoping to reunite Maddalena with her estranged sister and let her parents see their homeland one last time It is an idea that threatens to tear the Grasso family apart, until fate deals them some unwelcome surprises and their journey home becomes a necessary voyage.Writing with warmth and grace, Chris Castellani delivers a seductive feast for readers Beautiful Country is an incandescent novel about sacrifice and hope, loss and love, myth and memory.
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Christopher Castellani was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware His parents immigrated to the United States from a small village in Italy in the years following World War II, and their experiences have been a significant inspiration A Kiss From Maddalena, Christopher s first novel, was published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in April 2003, and was subsequently published in Australia, the U.K The Netherlands, Germany and Thailand In 2004, Christopher was awarded the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction for A Kiss from Maddalena In 2005, Castellani published The Saint of Lost Things, which continues the story of A Kiss from Maddalena but is a stand alone novel The same is true for All This Talk of Love Algonquin, February 2013 , which completes the trilogy, and was a New York Times Editors Choice His new novel, Leading Men will be published in early 2019 by Viking Penguin The author was educated at Swarth College, received his Masters in English Literature from Tufts University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Boston University He works as Artistic Director of Grub Street, one of the nation s leading independent writing centers, and also teaches fiction in the MFA Program at Warren Wilson, at Swarth College, and at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference Christopher Castellani lives in Boston, MA.