Giorgio Baroni

Mosaic Face Giorgio Baroni

Nick Costa is a first-generation young American man with parents caught in between cultures and their struggle to assimilate into a new society. Life is hard growing up in a dysfunctional family and dealing with their superstitions in contrast with the progressive life of New York City. He is not a particularly good student either. He has a mind for controversial literature of the Middle Ages, which isn't appreciated by his conservative teachers. Evil-eyed Nick has been maligned for years. Blame an eye disorder for the fear he inspires. Add to that the image of a perfect older brother and next to him, their authoritarian father. Nick, as a teenager, goes along to get along, until that attitude results in a wife who hates him, and a nasty mother-in-law who shares the raising of his beloved baby daughter. Nick didn't think his moral degradation could get any lower. The 9/11 tragedy provides the opportunity for Nick to flee the limitations of the past and uses the attacks to accomplish what the fall of the Towers didn't-the death of Nick Costa. Out of "mute darkness" the wounded Nick, rising from the ashes of overwhelming discord found in family, love, fate and 9/11, attempts life as a reinvented man. But will personal strength and self-inspired wisdom be enough to alter his future?After all, only he can change himself. The compelling narrative of Mosaic Face shimmers with erotic transformation, the immediacy of truth and poetic insight. We can picture ourselves as part of an unimaginable story. The characters' peril is our peril, until we are set free to see our own faces in the future.