About the Author

Robert Girardi was educated at Catholic schools in Europe and at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a recipient of the James Michener Fellowship in 1989. He lives in Washington, D.C. This is his first novel.

Reviews

"A remarkable achievement...Immensely engaging...part love story, part ghost story, always absorbing."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"A fast, can't-put-it-down reading experience...a vibrant gumbo of ghosts and gypsies, lovers and others."
--New Orleans Times-Picayune

"Readers have waited too long for Robert Girardi's peculiar mesmerizing genius."
--Colin Harrison, author of Bodies Electric

*"... a first novel of astonishing accomplishment... Girardi drives his tale along with sensuous prose."
--Publishers Weekly, starred review