Nicholas Shrady

Lucia and the Fates Nicholas Shrady

Lucia Vidal, Spanish exile, legendary radio personality, and improbable Park Avenue matron, has died mysteriously while on a return trip to her homeland after nearly forty years of painful, if gilded banishment in New York. So begins this multi-generational story of love and family, war and exile, long-guarded secrets and haunting twists of fate. Beginning in the 1970s and flashing back to the 1930s and the years, at once vibrant and tragic, of the Spanish Civil War, this fast-paced novel takes readers on an adventure between New York, Barcelona, Paris, and Tortosa. Only as this deeply moving story comes to an end do a cast of finely-wrought characters, including Lucia's husband Adam Fates, her son Paco, a long-lost lover, and a collection of her estranged Spanish kin, realize that little in Lucia Vidal's life, or their own, was as it had seemed.