"I miss our conversations!" Marilyn wrote to me. I don't know Marilyn well, but I like her very much. "You want to get a coffee sometime after Christmas?" I asked. Life starts to pick up and get ...

This atmospheric debut from a young Italian writer is drawing raves. After her father dies, Mina, a 30-year-old living in London, returns home to Calabria to help her sister run her late dad’s bar.

“I miss our conversations!” Marilyn wrote to me. I don’t know Marilyn well, but I like her very much. “You want to get a coffee sometime after Christmas?” I asked.