John McLucas Knihy

It's 2015. Tony and Rachel's son Jacob is coming to Baltimore to start graduate school at the world famous Peabody Conservatory of Music. He will live at Godfather Jim and Uncle Joe's Baltimore house. The sequel to Dialogues on the Beach , Spirit's Tether traces a year of growth and of mourning, the complexities of families of origin and of choice, the joys and torments of first love and coming out, and the ''spirit's tether'' binding love, sex, and romance throughout a life span.

A handsome young Roman actor stands at the dawn of his career. A chance meeting on the Metro introduces him to a circle of Anglo expats who find in him the embodiment of their dreams and doubts about Italy and its people. As a pandemic closes theaters, the whole world must don the actor's mask. Truth, trust, friendship, love, and art--all must be reimagined, rehearsed, and performed afresh. This book is the celebration of a friendship an intimate and refined partnership across languages and cultures, against the backdrop ofo the Eternal City which, page by page, becomes the undisputed protagonist of the novel -Michele di Mauro, novelist.