Addio, Love Monster, the Award-Winning Novel from Christina Marrocco

Libby Fischer Hellman, one of this year’s judges and a winner of last year’s Book of the Year award from the Chicago Writers Association, said this about Addio, Love Monster:  Marrocco seamlessly weaves together disparate opposites: the old with the young; the Italian “insiders” with the German and non-Italian “outsiders;” the memories of the elderly with their experience of “modern” life.

The resulting tapestry is a world where inflated egos meet their demise but retain a shred of dignity. Friendships are made or shattered. Husbands run amok. Wives threaten each other with life-long enmity but soon forgive. Death can be sudden or violent—there’s even a murder or two—but most of the time we are witnesses to the details, people, and events that shaped midcentury America…. This is fiction to be savored over time. It will charm and captivate you as it takes root in your soul...

Christina Marrocco works in memoir, short story, long fiction, and poetry. She teaches Creative Writing and other courses at Elgin Community College. 

www.writerchristinamarrocco.com