CWW award winner and former board member Paul Salsini has published the sixth, and he says the last, of his fiction series set in Tuscany. It’s The Fearless Flag Thrower of Lucca: Nine Stories of 1990s Tuscany. He will have a reading at 7 p.m. June 16 at Boswell Books, 2559 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee.
Salsini’s first book in the series, The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany, won first place in CWW’s 2006 Anne Powers (now Edna Ferber) Fiction Book Award competition. The fourth book, The Temptation of Father Lorenzo: Ten Stories of 1970s Tuscany, won honorable mention in the 2012 competition.
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