Vito Loves Geraldine
In these eighteen stories, Janice Eidus, with comic and tender irony, casts a sharp eye upon contemporary myths of romance, rebellion, and self-discovery.
From Publishers Weekly: “Spoofing generic notions of romance and family, Eidus’s authoritative short fiction is marked by a sly marriage of fantasy and reality. Readers are most effectively lured into the author’s special twilight zones by those stories told in the first person. Her high school sweetheart cuts a hit record and splits for the West Coast, and the sanguine heroine of the O. Henry-winning title story waits patiently for his return. Years pass, and Geraldine still teases her hair and dresses up in her old prom dress to dance and sing in front of the mirror, stuck firmly in the ’50s, when she was the most popular girl in her Bronx crowd.”
Praise
“Eidus’s authoritative short fiction is marked by a sly marriage of fantasy and reality. Readers… are effectively lured into the author’s special twilight zones.”
—Publishers Weekly
“These are stories to mull over, their emotive range rich and their originality magnetic.”
—Booklist
“Eidus imbues these sad-funny stories with a realism tempered with the absurd and the comic … this collection of stories zips along at full tilt.”
—Kansas City Star
“Eidus’s impressive collection simultaneously subverts and extends the narrative tradition.”
—American Book Review
