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Paperback. Fefe arrives in America with Sicily still inside him: the sea, the family traditions, the taste of fennel, fish, and bread. He meets Lena - brilliant, American, powerful, a woman at the center of her family relationships. Their marriage carries Alfredo from the Upper West Side to the Berkshires, from Sicily to London, through concerts, meals, friendships, rivalries, and the intimate politics of family.Fefe is a novel of travel and return: Sicily with its heat and memory, London with its fog and traditions, the Upper West Side with its liberal ideas and rituals, and the Berkshires with its summer festivals. It is also a sensual novel - of meals remembered, shared, and withheld. Food becomes language. Music becomes memory. Love becomes something harder to define.Woven through the book is a soundtrack the reader can listen to as they read: classical piano as the emotional accompaniment of Alfredo's life. The music does not decorate; it carries the story.At sixty, Alfredo finds himself drawn toward a younger Polish artist whose presence unsettles the life he has so carefully built. Over the years that follow, his marriage, his daughter, his past, and even Sicily itself begin to change shape. What once felt like inheritance becomes mystery. What once felt secure begins to recede.Fefe is the story of a man who has commanded the room his entire life and must finally ask what it has cost him. It is a novel of family, food, music, and desire - and the strange way a life can belong to many places and still leave a person searching for home. Alfredo constructs order-Sicilian discipline, a brilliant wife, a world of patronage-while searching for a centrality that keeps receding. A quieter exile: not from place, but from self. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Fef (Paperback)
- Author
- James Abruzzo
- Publisher
- Allegro Assai Press
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 13
- 9798996166008
When renowned concert pianist Alfredo Cercando loses the use of his left hand at sixty, he retreats to Sicily—not in defeat, but in search of silence. Avola, his childhood home, offers a strange kind of comfort: sun-bleached stone, the scent of wild fennel, and memories that surface like sea glass. There, in solitude, he begins to rebuild—not just his life, but his sense of purpose.
At the heart of his transformation is a faded photograph: nine boys, taken one summer in Siracusa when he was twenty-one and newly married to Eleanor Thomas, his poised New England wife. One by one, Alfredo sets out to discover who they became—and why one of them, a gifted violinist with Arab roots and a troubled past, haunts him most of all. Their eventual meeting becomes something deeper than redemption: a second chance at love, intimacy, and spiritual inheritance.
Surrounded by women who shape his emotional life—Lena, his powerful Boston-born ex-wife; Noa, his gay daughter, raising a child with fierce independence; Hanna, a Singaporean researcher with whom he shares an intellectual kinship; and Krysia, a Polish artist who once reawakened his body and longing—Alfredo begins to piece together a late-life portrait of belonging that defies tradition.
Set between Palermo, the Sicilian countryside, Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Berlin, and London, this is a novel of music, memory, and migration—filled with resonant meals, unexpected friendships, old photographs, and the quiet moments that reveal who we truly are.
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