“There is something stronger than pain, and that is habit.” In The Night Trembles, the second English-translated work from award-winning author Nadia Terranova, two stories converge in the aftermath of the devastating 1908 earthquake in Sicily and Calabria: a young woman sees a chance to avoid her impending arranged marriage and a boy manages to escape from the influence of an abusive mother on the verge of madness.
Written in Terranova’s distinctively lyric style, The Night Trembles is a melancholic ode to human resilience and the promise of the unknown. Join the author in bilingual conversation with USF writing professor Sara Marinelli.
