Toni Cade Bambara's One Sicilian Night by anthony Valerio
ISBN: 1-884419-84-4
About a legation of American writers and translators bonding in a foreign
land, in this case Italy, Sicily. Centers around the legendary
woman/author/media-political activist Toni Cade Bambara, who passed in
1995. With warm portraits of colleagues and friends Kurt Vonnegut and
Harold Brodkey, who also passed on.

Critics say:

"The process by which a great love begins is as hidden as the birth of the
universe or the conception of a human being. Here Anthony Valerio, who has
lived it, allows us to see it without violating its mystery. This is his
story of the improbable but profound recognition that ignited between him
an "Olive" man, Italian-American writer -- and the acclaimed, doomed Black
novelist and activist Toni Cade Bambara. It is so delicate, touching,
suspenseful -- I hardly breathed the whole time."
—Annie Gottlieb, author and critic

“The substance of this memoir is what makes us human when we come home
from struggling in the world. Valerio gives us home as the heart within
the heart, the place that is both vulnerable and free. Moreover, it is the
place that is true.”
—Afaa M. Weaver, Simmons College

buona fortuna a tutti-

Anthony