{"product_id":"across-the-arno-michael-manosca-9781969915130","title":"Across the Arno","description":"\u003cp\u003eGraham Tierney has spent thirty years writing the Oltrarno series-sweeping historical romances set in Renaissance Florence that have earned him critical acclaim, a devoted readership, and a Hollywood option. But since losing Simon, his husband of three decades, Graham hasn't written a word. He's been sitting alone in his Maine cottage, waiting for something he can't name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's Eli who finds him first. Sharp-tongued, fiercely loyal, and waiting at a bus stop in the December cold, Eli is a young man with hearing loss who works as an accountant-and who happens to be Graham's biggest fan. What begins as an unlikely friendship becomes something deeper: a bond that fills the spaces both have been missing. For Eli, Graham fills a space his own father never could. And Eli, without meaning to, teaches Graham how to live again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Graham's seventeen-year-old nephew Michael arrives for Christmas-a high school senior quietly wrestling with who he is and what he wants from life-the circle widens. There's Susan, a single mother rebuilding after homelessness, and her son Levi, who sees the world differently than most. As unlikely connections form, Eli becomes a steady, mentoring presence for them all-the right person, at the right time, saying the things they need to hear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoven throughout is the Oltrarno series itself-passages from Graham's novels about Marco and Alessandro, two young men in fifteenth-century Florence whose love story began thirty years ago on the page and now seems to be unfolding again in the lives around him. As Graham watches them-each searching for home, for belonging, for permission to be who they are-he begins to understand that the story he started writing all those years ago was never just fiction. And now, searching for a way to write the final book, he realizes that some stories don't end. They just find new ways to continue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcross the Arno\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a novel about invisible loneliness and unexpected family. About the courage it takes to say who you are. About the people who see us before we can see ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd about giving yourself permission to remain hopeful\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Manosca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1969915137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781969915130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael J Manosca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d","brand":"Michael Manosca","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001168666879,"sku":"9781969915130","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/across-the-arno-michael-manosca-9781969915130","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}