Venice-based · Literary Fiction
G. C. Marti
Everything worth saying gets written in the margin first.
a note on the pseudonym: it isn't a costume, just a closed door.
Novella · Literary Fiction
She Was Here
The Marginalia of Rossana Averni
When Rossana Averni is hospitalised, her teachers begin to understand that the girl they found so effortlessly brilliant had been performing effortlessness all along — and that none of them had thought to look behind it. She Was Here is a novel about attention, about guilt, and about the unbridgeable distance between knowing someone's work and knowing them. Set in a grey November Venice, it moves with precision and restraint toward a question it refuses to answer easily: what do we owe the people who make it easy not to worry about them?
From the margin
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