The playwright and author focuses on the issues of race, sex, class, and secrets as they affect an upwardly mobile Italian-American family in 1960s Massachusetts as one man confronts his conflicting f
Richie Palumbo, the most ordinary of men, gets lost one night in 1969 while driving with his family. He finds himself in Norumbega—a gorgeous, hidden town on the far edges of Boston’s western suburbs.
With this collection of stories, Anthony Giardina takes his place among the finest writers of short fiction in America. The Country of Marriage is a window into the lives of men as they confront the