Description: Michele Campo is a speech pathologist living the high life in Naples. But when he begins to treat a poor foster child, he is forced to confront dark family secrets about his own rise from poverty. The award-winning When Things Happen tells a powerful story about memory, destiny, and class consciousness in one of Italy's most divided cities.
Review Quotes: "Angelo Cannavacciuolo has long deserved U.S. publication, and this novel may be his most spectacular and beautiful. When Things Happen shows prodigious range, setting the rich and coddled across a café table from hardscrabble slum dwellers. It's a portrait in the round, shot through with compassion and stirring poetry. Overall, it feels like Elena Ferrante's entire Neapolitan Quartet wrapped up in one, illuminating both a city unlike any other and a whole world tormented by the rift between Haves and Have-nots."--John Domini "author of the Earthquake I.D. trilogy"