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Joint Book Launch: The Color Inside A Melon by John Domini and The Good Mother of Marseille by Christopher X. Shade
10th July 2019 @ 7:00 pm
In John Domini’s fourth novel, a disastrous earthquake has Naples reeling. While the government scrambles to maintain appearances, poverty and anarchy rack the people on Italy’s margins—the illegal immigrants out of Africa, known as the clandestini. One of whom has just been horrifically murdered.
In Christopher X. Shade’s debut novel, it’s the summer of 2013 in Marseille, in the year of its designation as the European Capital of Culture. Readers get a taste of this dangerous, impoverished yet seductive port city of France as they follow the interwoven stories of Americans who have come to wander and sightsee. Noémie, an anthropology student, wants to make the gritty graffiti-covered neighborhood of Cours Julien her home, but she’s running out of time, money, and her university sponsor’s patience. Take a walk with Noémie and her hot dog, Chinelo, through the turbulent streets of Marseille…