The Swallows of Lunetto

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It reads aloud like poetry while telling a page-turning story that kept me almost breathless until the end. and Real Artists Have Day Jobs “The Cult in My Garage is the rare book that made me laugh alone in my room, made me pick up the phone and tell my sister, you should read this. I drew, of course, on personal experience, on my time in Italy, on family legends, on reading, on breathing, on life.

He had been broken so many times, first by war and then by the wars within him, but he had prevailed.Erin Taylor, author of OOOO “Sometimes Cool Things are Terrible occupies the quiet moments of nostalgic being. A food blogger moonlights as a detective to give meaning to his gluttony… A rehabbed addict proselytizes with an increasingly bizarre methodology… Lovesick strangers try to heal through a dating app that promises a unique form of catharsis.

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Funny, blithe, whip-smart, hilarious, of the moment and of the past, despairing yet hopeful, melancholic yet joyful -- these are a few of the words that come to mind after reading Duncan Birmingham's blissfully delightful collection of short stories. Joseph Fasano is the author of the novels The Swallows of Lunetto (Maudlin House, 2022) and The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020), which was named one of the “20 Best Small Press Books of 2020. Read, with caution: this book will take root in your heart and will burn outward, consuming, and you will feel it in every inch of you. Killed by shrapnel as he served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Olesya Khromeychuk’s brother Volodymyr died on the frontline in eastern Ukraine. Joseph Fasano, 40, from New York, noticed an older lady sitting next to him was reading his new novel The Swallows Of Lunetto.