Libretto

by Ann Wadsworth

The verdant landscape of central Italy provides the setting for this operatically infused novel in which three ex-patriots, drawn together by their mutual passion for opera, experience the personal challenges of loss, grief, and passionate love.

354 pages, Paperback

Published September 22, 2022

About the author

Ann Wadsworth was born and raised in St. Louis, and now lives in Boston. She has degrees in English from Berea College, the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and a certificate of proficiency in Italian language and literature from the Italian University for Foreigners in Perugia, Italy.

Her first novel, Light, Coming Back, was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, and the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award, and was a Book of the Month Club selection. Her most recent novel, Ferragosto, was supported by the MacDowell Colony and the Boston Athenaeum. Her short stories have appeared in Christopher Street Magazine (including its anthology Aphrodisiac), and Blithe House Quarterly. She currently lives in Boston.

Reviews

[Alice · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved her first novel and had high hopes for this one as well, but it fell a little flat. The dialogue felt repetitive and the narrator was at times insufferable. The romance and the relationships between the characters was quite nice.