Garbage Night at the Opera
stories
by Valerie Fioravanti
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Pub Date Dec 01 2012 | Archive Date May 05 2013
BkMk Press | BKMK Press
Description
Garbage Night at the Opera: Stories, is a fiction debut by Valerie Fioravanti, chosen by bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard for the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction. The linked stories in Garbage Night at the Opera depict an extended Italian-American family living collectively in one apartment building in Brooklyn, New York, across decades as their neighborhood suddenly loses the factory jobs that support it, languishes for a generation, then gentrifies.
Advance Praise
Valerie Fioravanti’s Garbage Night at the Opera is among the most accomplished and emotionally resonant story collections I have read in years. Deeply satisfying stories with a set of characters I feel like
I came to know as well as my own family.
—Peter Orner
Love and Shame and Love
Garbage Night at the Opera takes us deep into the heart of Greenpoint, the neighborhood I lived in for many years. Here, at last, is the real Brooklyn: gritty, tender, workaday, brave. Fioravanti’s characters are so vivid I felt as if I were watching them in real life. Her prose is unsentimental, intense, and enthralling.
—Kate Christensen
The Astral
In these linked stories, Valerie Fioravanti transports us squarely into the middle of the lives of Italian immigrants living in Brooklyn. With unf linching and sparkling prose, she shows us the stuff these characters are made of, a raw mixture of despair, humor, and above all, a fighting spirit and hope. Despite the curveballs poverty throws at them, Fioravanti lets us know, with love woven into every word, that in the end, these characters will emerge stronger and still on their feet. Bravissimo!
—Naomi Benaron
Running the Rift
Love Letters from a Fat Man
These interrelated stories are a group of small, intense fires that form a large-scale conf lagration. Fioravanti’s working-class characters try to reverse the spell of hopelessness they have been cast under by family members or by lovers or by the broken promises of Brooklyn. Each brilliant page of Garbage Night at the Opera intimately places you inside the characters’ hearts and minds as they reckon with what cannot be salvaged—and what can.
—Kevin McIlvoy
The Complete History of New Mexico
and Other Stories, and Hyssop
With Garbage Night at the Opera, Valerie Fioravanti establishes herself as a writer to watch. The stories are written with wit and style, and she manages—in story after story—to touch upon something profoundly human. This is a terrific book.
—Robert Boswell
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Marketing Plan
Appearances planned for Sacramento, San Francisco, LA, NYC, and at the AWP meeting in Boston in March 2013.
Appearances planned for Sacramento, San Francisco, LA, NYC, and at the AWP meeting in Boston in March 2013.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781886157842 |
| PRICE | $15.95 (USD) |
