Renato After Alba

When Alba, his beloved wife of fifty years, dies without warning, the blow leaves him in pieces, and Renato is reduced to a gray existence of messy confusion: broken belief, crazy hope, desperate philosophy. A man of fragments but still an artist, he assembles a collage of scenes of life with and without Alba, recollections of his Sicilian-American family, encounters with friends, and railings against any deity that destroys what it has created. For the enduring Renato, grief is transcendent.

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