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Caterina Edwards -- Reading & Signing

Friday Sep 11 2015 7:30 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Travel Alcove
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Reading & Signing The Sicilian Wife (Linda Leith Publishing) with guest reader Carmelo Militano.

The Sicilian Wife interweaves the stories of two strong women: a Mafia princess struggling to escape her family and create a new life in Canada and a chief of police in a Sicilian town, fighting to solve a murder and establish authority over her men. Caterina Edwards’s sixth book is receiving stellar reviews: “All the elements we expect from this genre and this talented writer: drama, passion, and literary sophistication.” It has been described as having “depth of place and character,” being “sensuous, fast-paced and erudite,” and by The Times of Sicily, as “a great page-turner which manages to evoke a refreshingly authentic portrait of contemporary Sicily.” The Edmonton writer’s previous five books and personal essays have received critical and academic attention and won various awards. Caterina Edwards: Essays on Her Works was the first book published in Guernica Editions series on Canadian Writers.

Carmelo MilitanoGuest reader Carmelo Militano is a Winnipeg writer and poet. He is the author of the novel Sebastiano’s Vine, a family memoir/Italian travelogue, The Fate of Olives, and several poetry chapbooks. In 2004, he received the F.G. Bressani poetry award for his collection Ariadne’s Thread. Morning After You, a poetry collection, is his most recent publication. Militano is also an essayist and reviewer and has published widely in both U.S. and Canadian magazines and is the host of the P.I. Poetry Radio Show heard every Sunday at 4:30, CKUW FM 95.9. He will be reading from his novel Sebastiano’s Vine.

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Sicilian Wife, The

- Caterina Edwards

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The Sicilian Wife is both a literary novel and a mystery. Fulvia, the Mafia Princess, must be a dutiful daughter or the family will be dishonoured. Though she eventually escapes and makes a new life in Canada, she is betrayed and then her husband is murdered on the Sicilian coast. The police Chief investigating the case is Marisa, who faces a station house of skeptical men as well as confronting Fulvia's uncle, the boss of bosses. Interweaving folk tales, classical allusions, and recent Italian history with the conventions of the detective story in this powerful new novel, Caterina Edwards uses the literary noir to question the very possibility of justice and free will.