L'ANNO IN CUI IMPARAI A LEGGERE

This is a tragicomic story about family, fatherhood and male friendship, that shows the readers how life can be endlessly surprising.

What's a twenty-five-year-old doing with a fussy little four-year-old who isn't even his son? How he ended up getting up early to take him to kindergarten, shopping for him and even cleansing his privates? It's all because of Simona, Niccolò's sweetheart. Beautiful and restless, she has always dreamt of becoming a drama actor, so when the chance came around she embarked on a European tour, leaving her son with her three-month boyfriend. As if that weren't enough, Giorgio's actual father - ruffled curls, guitar and all - has left Argentina to meet his son and has taken up quarters with Niccolò and Giorgio. The two men are in love with the same woman and hate each other, and Giorgio doesn't recognize either as his father. And yet, day after day, squabble after squabble, weird habit after weird habit, the three abandoned males learn to prop each other up, so that they can live and bear together the weight of the world. With his captivating writing Marco Marsullo hooks you in from the very beginning, and writes an hilarious and honest comedy about a very special, non-conventional (three-male) family, composed by a young man in his thirties, the four-year-old son of his beloved but distant girlfriend and the biological Argentinian boho father of the kid, who just moved in with them after a four-year-long disappearance. Marco Marsullo was born in Naples in 1985. His debut came in 2013 with Atletico Minaccia Football Club (Einaudi Stile Libero). In 2014 he published L'audace colpo dei quattro di Rete Maria che sfuggirono alle Miserabili Monache, followed by I miei genitori non hanno figli in 2015 and Due come loro in 2018. He teaches creative writing.