If it hails in May
When handicap comes after God

Descrizione

The title of Rolando Rizzo’s novel already contains in its conciseness the essential design of its contents.

Life in its beauty sometimes seems like a green expanse of uncultivated wheat that promises a rich summer harvest, but an hour of violent hailstorm is enough to transform it into desperate desolation.

There are two basic types of handicap: one caused by narcissism and irresponsibility and the other that belongs to the chromosome lottery. Both often devastate happy families, or in any case force them to reshape their entire existential path with sometimes heroic and, otherwise, desolating results.

In Rolando Rizzo’s novel, both types of handicaps fall like lightning on a family and its wealthy and strongly religious community, breaking down fronts, clichés, enhancing appearances, to reveal the true substance of which we are made and the choices of background that everyone does sooner or later. face when “the hail will fall in May”.

The novel is about solidarity and betrayal. Of lives that intertwine, that are lost, that are redeemed, that in being irreconcilable they are all reconciled, some to trace new seasons of love and freedom.