The Girl at the Door

While on vacation on an idyllic island called Miden, a seemingly aimless woman meets an attractive man and leaves her country to be with him. A few months later, newly pregnant and just beginning to feel comfortable in her lover's space, her life is upended when a girl arrives at the door.

Slight and pretty, the girl discloses a drawn out and violent affair she's had with her professor, the father of the woman's unborn child. In alternating perspectives, the professor and his girlfriend reflect upon their lives, each other, and their interloper. As the community gathers testimony and considers the case, the couple is forced to confront their own paranoia, fetishes, and transgressions in light of the student's accusations.

Provocative and unnerving, The Girl at the Door explores the bureaucracy of a scandal, and the thin line between lust and possession. In an age in which blunt power and fickle nuance take turns upon the stage, Raimo has delivered an intoxicating exploration of the politics and power of sex.

Author: Veronica Raimo
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Published: 10/08/2019
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780802147349


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 08/05/2019
Booklist 09/15/2019 pg. 20
Library Journal 10/11/2019 pg. 1
Shelf Awareness 10/18/2019

About the Author
VERONICA RAIMO is the author of two novels published in Italy - Il dolore secondo Matteo and Tutte le feste di domani - and a collection of short stories published in Germany, Eines Tages alles dir. Veronica contributes regularly to Rolling Stone and wrote the script for Sleeping Beauty by Marco Bellocchio. She has translated from English to Italian writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Octavia Butler, Iain Sinclair, Vikram Seth, and others. She lives in Rome.