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Podcast: Playtime with WC Turck
Episode: Addio, Love Monster, the Award-Winning Novel from Christina Marrocco
Description: Libby Fischer Hellman, one of this year’s judges and a winner of last year’s Book of the Year award from the Chicago Writers Association, said this about Addio, Love Monster: Marrocco seamlessly weaves together disparate opposites: the old with the young; the Italian “insiders” with the German and non-Italian “outsiders;” the memories of the elderly with their experience of “modern” life.
The resulting tapestry is a world where inflated egos meet their demise but retain a shred of dignity. Friendships are made or shattered. Husbands run amok. Wives threaten each other with life-long enmity but soon forgive. Dea...