“Daddona’s immersive debut is both a coming-of-age story and a portrait of a community…There are big ideas aplenty in here-and some bleak moments of moral horror as well. A philosophical, intentionally digressive exploration of masculinity, toxic and otherwise.”
-Kirkus Reviews
Henry Manero wants to grow up. But growing up is seldom the same as moving on. In this poetic and at times philosophical coming-of-age novel, Henry must learn to navigate his inherited guilt and trauma alongside several generations of dispirited loners-among them his absent father, suffering mother, three wild cousins, and bumbling stepfather. When Henry befriends an elderly man, Josef, whose sagaciousness presents new possibilities in life, he wonders if he can escape the trappings of his small town, and of his own mind. Will Henry achieve a newfound sense of self with the help of Josef, or is Josef yet another false star in a constellation of malevolent men with which Henry is surrounded?
Combining the lyricism of Justin Torres’ We the Animals with the kaleidoscopic visions of boyhood in David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green, Matthew Daddona’s debut novel The Longitude of Grief is a tender rumination on the familial bonds that entangle and entrance us all.
Author: Matthew Daddona
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wandering Aengus Press
Published: 05/14/2024
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9798218246433
Language: English
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