Volume 54, Number 18 · November 22, 2007
In Sicilian Shadows
By Francine Prose
Behind Closed Doors: Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily
by Maria Messina, translated from the Italian by Elise Magistro
Feminist Press, 196 pp., $19.95
Just before things turn ugly (or uglier) for the characters in Maria Messina's startling 1921 novel, A House in the Shadows, a young woman named Nicolina, who lives with her married sister and is about to become the mistress of her despotic brother-in-law, gazes down at her newborn niece:
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