Lucia Frangione: 3 books

A small prairie community is blown apart when an audacious teenaged girl challenges long-held views of spirituality and sexuality. Suspected of being gay, she is brutalized by her classmates. This searing drama of bigotry and transcendence challenges the fallout of the Catholic Church's response to...

Sexy, provocative, and challenging, Espresso is a rich, dark, bitter hit of comedy and sensuality. A single actress alternately narrates and enacts her own and her family’s history along with an uninvited narrator/actor, Amante (“lover” in Italian). We are never sure whether Rosa has created Amante or he has created her. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.

After six generations, the family estate has been subdivided, the garden has gone wild, and the house has been carved into a duplex. The McKinnons now live on one side of the property, while the other has been sold to an immigrant family from Turkey. Both heirs apparent must learn, now, to build love in the wilderness of their lives.