“But beneath the boundless flow of colorful anecdote, character portrait, and discursive dialogue in and around the Tuscan town of Forte dei Marmi, there's a story about the lonely daydreams of outsiders. Pain and alienation are the book’s foundation, but its superstructure is a sentimental weave of modern life punctuated by Genovesi’s sense of humor and fondness for off-the-cuff aphorisms: ‘If the future sucks so much, then shit, we’re better off diving into all the present we can find’.”
