{"product_id":"when-things-happen-angelo-cannavacciuolo-9781978837119","title":"When Things Happen","description":"\u003cp\u003e Michele Campo is living the bourgeois Italian dream. Now a speech pathologist in his forties, he resides in an expensive Naples home with his partner, Costanza, daughter of an upper-class family. Michele's own family origins, however, are murkier. When he is assigned to work with five-year-old foster child Martina, he grows increasingly engrossed by her case, as his own buried family history slowly claws its way back to the surface. The first novel by acclaimed Italian writer Angelo Cannavacciuolo to be translated into English, \u003ci\u003eWhen Things Happen \u003c\/i\u003etells a powerful and intriguing story of what we lose when we leave our origins behind. It presents a panoramic view of Neapolitan society unlike any in literature, revealing a city of extreme contrasts, with a glamorous center ringed by suburban squalor. Above all, it is a psychologically nuanced portrait of a man struggling to locate what he values in life and the poor vulnerable child who helps him find it. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Angelo Cannavacciuolo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1978837119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978837119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Angelo Cannavacciuolo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44522771251455,"sku":"9781978837119","price":62.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ab281047-8159-4f08-b23b-19204e07966e.jpg?v=1700158936","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-things-happen-angelo-cannavacciuolo-9781978837119","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}