SMOKE SCREEN: A SICILIAN/AMERICAN OPERA by Mary Ann Castronovo Fusco is set in northern New Jersey and Sicily in 1993. It is about an immigrant family that reunites to confront a health crisis and discovers there can be life after death. Having given up on his American dream 20 years earlier, Nino Di Martino, a […]
The stories of our mothers are overshadowed by our fathers, in a man’s world, where language is not the mother-tongue but rather, the father-tongue. Grace has always lived in the shadow of her father. On her final day of life, Grace conjures up her mother, Jeanette, and her child-self, young Grace, and the three women
THE DIAGONAL TRILOGY by Vita Patrick Morales is the story of Carly, a man who grew up under unusual circumstances in the shadow of the Pulaski Skyway in the Ironbound District of Newark, New Jersey. The troubles of his childhood go with him his entire life through war and injury as he searches endlessly