Anthony Delstretto

Anthony Delstretto

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I was raised in a mid-1950s Detroit neighborhood among Polish, Irish, and fellow Italian families. Later I graduated from college in California and went on to a forty-year career in education as an English teacher and school administrator. In the early 1990s, I discovered to my surprise that I still had family in Italy, which eventually ked to my acquiring dual Italian citizenship. Immersing myself in the history of the land of my ancestors, I was inspired to write my first work of fiction, the series THE LAST ITALIAN: A SAGA IN THREE PARTS, of which "Fate's Restless Feet" is the second book.  My wife and I live in the northwest.

A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>

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