“Do we have an Italian Camus on our hands? Just possibly... No recent Italian novel so elegantly and directly confronts the ‘new Italy.’”—Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Sugar recounts his days and nights spent with Miss Sweetie in a novel that fits squarely into the illustrious tradition of feline literature a la T.S. Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Baudelaire, Bukowski, and Céline.
We cannot know what life has in store for us, but we do know that whatever it is, it will only be meaningful if borne on the wings of love. Schmitt’s sublime stories remind us how true this is.