Recent History A Novel

In 1962, twelve-year-old Luca Carcera's father suddenly moves out of the house under mysterious circumstances and surfaces across town in a run-down rooming house, living with another man. This event casts a long shadow over Luca's own sexual coming-of-age, calling into dramatic question every relationship he developsor fails to. Years later, Luca enters his own marriage harboring a sexual secret that, in an earlier era, might have remained a secret, but which now forces him to confront, in the most painful way, the strictly demarcated boundaries of male sexuality.

The author of two novels and a short-story collection, Anthony Giardina has has two plays produced to critical acclaim at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, the Manhattan Theatre Club, Arena Stage in Washington, and elsewhere. He has written for <i>Harper’s, Esquire, GQ</i>, and <i>The New York Times Magazine</i>.