"Amid the ugly realities of contemporary America, American Hate affirms our courage and inspiration, opening a road map to reconciliation by means of the victims' own words." (NPR Books) "The collection offers possible solutions for how people, on their own or working with others, can confront hate." (San Francisco Chronicle)...
In Venice, Frances Croy is working to leave the previous year behind: another novel published to little success, a scathing review she can't quite manage to forget, and, most of all, the real reason behind her self-imposed exile from London: the incident at the Savoy. Sequestered within an aging palazzo, Frankie finds comfort in the emptiness of Venice in winter, in the absence of others. And then Gilly appears.